The Bay Club Company is a membership-based active lifestyle and hospitality company headquartered in San Francisco. Founded in 1977 with the nation's first co-ed fitness club, it now operates a growing collection of resort-inspired clubs organized into regional campuses across the West Coast - the Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, and the Pacific Northwest. Built on four points of focus - fitness, sports, family, and hospitality - the company serves a community of 135,000-plus members with tennis, swimming, squash, golf, pickleball, group exercise, family programs, dining, and spa services. Backed by KKR, Bay Club is in an aggressive expansion phase, acquiring regional operators to scale toward 50-plus clubs and over 200,000 members.
TeachMe.To is a marketplace for booking in-person private lessons - golf, tennis, pickleball, music, yoga, and more - that matches beginners with vetted local coaches and handles scheduling, payments, and reviews in one place.
Paul Johnson is a British-American entrepreneur, author, CEO coach, and General Partner at Flex Capital — a $200M+ venture fund backing 200+ category-defining companies including Perplexity, Vercel, Rippling, and Supabase. He founded Lemonaid Health in San Francisco in 2013, pioneering nationwide digital telehealth and prescription delivery, raised $60M+, scaled to nearly 200 employees, and sold the company to 23andMe for $400 million in 2021. Since then, he has written two Nobel laureate biographies, coaches high-growth CEOs, and invests in early-stage AI and fintech startups — while competing in professional-level pickleball tournaments.