JOHN LAGUE Pittsburgh, PA | john@johnlague.com | johnlague.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/john-lague | GitHub: github.com/jalague Last updated: August 2026 SUMMARY ------- COO at Trainwell. Previously co-founder of Community Phone (Y Combinator W19). Data scientist by training, operator and growth person by trade. Open to helping early stage companies with acquisition. SELECTED RESULTS ---------------- $1k -> $10M ARR at Trainwell as first growth leader; $30M+ revenue since 3 -> 125 employees at Trainwell, scaled as COO 2 publications IEEE and Towards Data Science EXPERIENCE ---------- Chief Operating Officer — Trainwell Feb 2021 - Present * Trainwell is a 1-on-1 remote personal trainer and fitness app that has helped tens of thousands of people build healthier habits. * Drove B2C ARR from $1k to $10M as growth leader before hiring a head of growth; scaled to $30M+ in revenue in the years since. * Scaled the company from 3 to 125 employees as COO. * Acquired customers on both $0 and $6.5M marketing budgets. * Supported execution of a large-scale partnership with Peloton. * Oversee all marketing/growth, customer support, and operations. VP of Business Development — Trainwell Feb 2020 - Nov 2021 * First full-time hire. * Found initial user traction using the Bullseye framework outlined by Gabriel Weinberg (DuckDuckGo). Data Analyst — PNC Bank Feb 2020 - Sep 2020 * Extracted, cleaned, and analyzed millions of data points across home equity, mortgage, and credit card products (Python, T-SQL, Hadoop, PL/SQL). * Defined the strategy for identifying mortgages with imperfect insurance termination dates, saving customers thousands. * Key resource for the SBA Paycheck Protection Program — processed and approved hundreds of small-business loans. Founder — PocketPosture Jul 2019 - Aug 2020 * Ecommerce store selling posture-improvement devices. Broke even on sales. * Primarily a space to experiment with unconventional marketing ideas; resulted in a published Towards Data Science article. Co-founder & COO — Community Phone (Y Combinator W19) Dec 2017 - Jul 2019 * Affordable cell phone service (MVNO). Bootstrapped from $0 to $300K ARR in one year. * Wore many hats: sales, customer success, marketing, business development, analytics, retail management, recruiting, and product sourcing. * Front-page coverage in the Boston Globe. Data Science Practicum Team Lead — LA County Elections Nov 2017 - May 2018 * Cut ballot collection times by 12% in the 2018 primary elections using the Google Maps API and k-means clustering. Teaching Assistant — University of San Francisco Jan 2015 - Dec 2017 * TA'd Business Statistics, Calculus, Statistics with Applications, Intro to Data Science, and Bioinformatics. * Lectured for the graduate Bioinformatics course as an undergraduate. EDUCATION --------- Y Combinator — W19 batch (Community Phone) University of San Francisco — B.S. Data Science Summa Cum Laude | GPA 3.85 | Co-founded the Data Science Association SKILLS ------ Growth strategy, performance marketing, funnel optimization, SEO, influencer marketing, Python (advanced), SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, T-SQL), R, predictive modeling, Google Analytics. PUBLICATIONS ------------ "Is it possible to predict poor posture?" — Towards Data Science, Dec 2019 "Applying Deep Learning to Public Health: Using Unbalanced Demographic Data to Predict Thyroid Disorder" — IEEE IEMCON, 2018 AWARDS ------ Most Impactful Graduate Research award — USF, 2017 Pi Mu Epsilon mathematics honor society — 2016 2nd place, Data Institute Data Science Hackathon — 2017 SELECTED PRESS -------------- Pittsburgh Business Times — Peloton / Trainwell partnership, 2026 TechCrunch — CoPilot raises $6.5M Series A-1, 2023 Crunchbase News — DeltaTrainer $3.3M seed, 2021 Pittsburgh Business Times — Anytime Fitness partnership, 2021 90.5 WESA (NPR) — AI-assisted personal training, 2020 Boston Globe — front-page feature on Community Phone, 2019 Cambridge Day — Harvard Square pop-up retail, 2019 BostInno — Community Phone feature, 2018