FITNESS WARRIORS
No 80
Sarah Larson Levey and Mason Levey → Y7 STUDIO
Three-year growth 4,021.7%
2017 revenue $5.6 million
NEW YORK CITY • FOUNDED 2014
No 97
John Foley → PELOTON
Three-year growth 3,710.8%
2017 revenue $328.3 million
NEW YORK CITY • FOUNDED 2012
No 292
A New Twist Yoga is thousands of years old, but entrepreneurs such as Sarah Larson Levey continue to discover new ways to practice, and commercialize, it.
Josh York → GYMGUYZ
Three-year growth 1,670.3%
2017 revenue $3.2 million
PLAINVIEW, N.Y. • FOUNDED 2008
Sarah Larson Levey is yoga’s newest mogul, and maybe its most unlikely one. “This all came about because I actually hate yoga,” Levey says of her five-year-old company, Y7 Studio, which has eight locations in New York City, two outposts in Los Angeles, and plans to expand to at least two more cities by next year. In its modish studios, young urbanites strike ancient poses by candlelight as hip-hop thumps through speakers and infrared heaters ensure everyone works up a good sweat. Y7 stands at No. 80 on the 2018 Inc. 500.
Levey, 31, swears she had nothing like this in mind when she and her then-fiancé, Mason Levey, started offering pop-up classes in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood in the summer of 2013. She was motivated by the many unsatisfactory yoga classes she’d taken since moving to New York from Michigan. Too
