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Working Hard, Hardly Working

Ep. 88 The Grit It Takes To Turn Your Idea Into A Billion Dollar Reality With Whoop's Will Ahmed

Working Hard, Hardly Working

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Ceos, Feminsim, Advice, Self-improvement, Business, Women In Business, Stories, Education, Marketing, Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Ceo, Women Leaders, Money, Careers, Success

4.4738 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

I don’t want to offend the other guests, but Will Ahmed might be the most impressive guest we’ve ever had on this podcast. Aged just 22, whilst still a student at Harvard, he founded Whoop, a wearable health tracker that measures the minutiae of your heart rate data to give you insights on your strain & recovery.


10 years later, the company is worth $3.6 BILLION and Whoop is worn by athletes across the world, from LeBron James to Michael Phelps. Will’s story is properly incredible, but what’s even more amazing is his advice on how to find success & sustain it. 


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0:00.0

It's the first customer of the day.

0:02.0

The unexpected 20% tip and the 100% boost to your confidence.

0:07.0

Business is a numbers game and sum up has the tools you need to stay ahead.

0:12.0

With tap to pay, you can accept contactless payments using just your smartphone.

0:17.0

And with our free business account, you can manage all things money with zero hassle all in one place.

0:24.4

Make it count with SumUp. Download the app or find out more at sumup.com.uk. Look, I don't want to offend the other guests, but Will Ahmed might be the most impressive

0:44.5

guest we've ever had on this podcast. Age just 22, while still a student at Harvard, he founded

0:49.7

Whoop, a wearable health tracker that measures the minutia of your heart rate data to give you

0:54.1

insights into your strain and recovery. Ten years later, the company was valued. a wearable health tracker that measures the minutia of your heart rate data to give you insights

0:54.6

into your strain and recovery.

0:56.3

Ten years later, the company was valued at $3.6 billion, and Woop is won by athletes

1:02.4

across the world from LeBron James to Michael Phelps.

1:05.6

Will's story is incredible, but what I found most impressive was his insight into building a business, building a

1:14.0

big idea business, something that reinvents the way we see things or the way we do things or the

1:19.3

way we think about our health in this example. His lessons that he learned along the way,

1:25.0

both from raising funding to setting up the right type of

1:28.9

team to breaking down his own walls when it came to the things that made him, in his words,

1:36.5

not the best leader that he could necessarily be. I think that it's a truly invaluable story

1:43.4

and the advice and kind of wisdom that he dropped on

1:46.4

this podcast is some that I think I will remember for a very long time.

1:54.1

Before we get into the episode, if you could just go to the podcast on Spotify and give us a

1:59.4

rating, you can choose the rating, but let's be honest,

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