How Fritz Pienaar Used His Love Of Mountain Biking To Inspire His Entrepreneurial Journey And Launch The Warrior Race Fritz Pienaar had 30 large scale endurance and biking events last year, find out his secrets to success.

By Daniel Newman

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Fritz Pienaar pioneered mountain biking in South Africa. After winning three South African cross-country mountain bike championships he started his entrepreneurial journey in a bicycle shop and now owns brands such as the The Warrior Race, SASeeding.org and ADVENDURANCE , which run multiple mountain bike series across SA. Find out why he launched SASeeding.org and why he kept it going even though it wasn't initially profitable, and why it's now being used by almost every big event nationally.

Daniel Newman

CEO of Druff Interactive, Creator of CEOwise

Daniel Newman interviews leading entrepreneurs and finds out what the secret to their success is on his platform CEOwise. After running his design agency Druff Interactive for over 15 years he realised he should have been in a different place with his business after so many years. Determined to become a better entrepreneur Daniel is on a mission to learn from the best in the business. CEOwise documents his journey of learning.
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