Fitness · 9+ locations · NYC, the Hamptons
The fashion set's favorite reformer studio looks like a chain built to sell. It isn't: founders Heather Andersen and Brion Isaacs still own all nine studios outright, having turned down private equity to grow on debt and cash flow instead.
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New York Pilates has grown to nine studios across NYC and the Hamptons without taking a dollar of outside investment — the founders borrowed against themselves rather than sell equity. Its labor record is clean and instructors earn a posted $45–$100 per class, though front-desk pay starts at minimum wage, and there's no formal environmental or sourcing record published to check at this scale. The company answers to no one but Heather Andersen and Brion Isaacs, who still run it day to day.
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