Thurston, a onetime professional cyclist who maintained MapMyFitness's position as a top fitness app from the iPhone's earliest days, tells the story in his new office in downtown Austin, in a
brand - new building where giant images of Under Armour
athletes adorn the walls (amid, of course, motivational mantras) and several hundred new engineers and other
tech employees work.
She has held leadership positions and taken several
tech startups through both IPO and sale including video company InterVU (now Akamai), rich media company Unicast (now Sizmek), data and social graph company 33Across, and
athlete and celebrity endorsement platform company
Brand Affinity Technologies.