you need to develop and grow at least at the same rate of the business. Otherwise, by definition,

you'll be slowing the business down. If the business grows more quickly than you, then that's a

really dangerous place to be. But it's that ability to be self-aware enough to recognize and

understand that, combined with your aspirations for your business to be bigger than your

aspirations for yourself, I think is really important.

What's up, folks? Welcome back to the Whoop podcast. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO,

and we're on a mission to unlock human performance. We have a unique and talented guest of an

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All right.

On this week's episode, I am joined by Jim Shark CEO and founder Ben Francis.

Ben founded Jim Shark when he was just 19 years old and has grown the business from an

operation as garage to one of the most recognized fitness apparel brands in the world. In 2016,

Jim Shark was confirmed as one of UK's fastest growing companies. It was valued over a billion dollars

in 2020 and is probably worth well more than that today.

Ben and I discuss fostering his creative passions and the earliest inclinations of building

Jim Shark.

He went to university and was able to work on his design skills there.

Starting Jim Shark at the age of 19, he literally shares a story of the company making $250 a day

to then go into $30,000 a day. How he has shifted his mindset as an entrepreneur, shifting roles

throughout the growth of Jim Shark. We talk a little bit about what it's like being young

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