Sports has this enormous power and it cannot hide from its relevance.

Sports can be used to keep people together and bring them together.

And so everywhere we went, we saw the relevance of sports.

Hello folks, welcome to the Whoop Podcast. It's January 2nd here in Boston and a bit of a sad day in Boston as we learned of David Stern's passing yesterday. And David, for me, was just an incredible friend and mentor. He was an investor and an advisor to Whoop. And he was someone who I think

touched a lot of people's lives in a really impactful way. We wanted to re-release the first

podcast that we ever did with David. And I think it's a nice reflection on his life and a lot of his points of view

on sports and business. And just listening to him in this intro, I was choking up a little bit

thinking about just what an incredible impact. I think he had on all of sports. And with it, all of sports technology,

he became a big investor in early stage technology. He became a big friend of the entrepreneur.

I met David when I was probably 27 years old. And I told him about our mission to unlock human performance and help athletes have longer careers.

And he said to me, you know, Will, if you can get every athlete just to have one year longer in their careers, that would completely change sports.

And he was the biggest champion, I think, for athlete well-being, for athlete empowerment.

When we were talking about athlete privacy, David was one of the biggest believers in making sure that we empowered athletes first.

There's a lot of things that I think about just off the top of my mind with David,

his sense of humor. He was sharp as a nail in terms of navigating leagues and helping

athletes. When we were raising money, he was, you know, one of the first people who would call

investors on my behalf.

And then, look, I just always felt like I left our conversations together learning so much.

And so I miss you, David, incredibly appreciative of everything that you did in my life.

And I know many people out there are missing you today. So without further ado, here's the podcast that we

recorded with David Stern. David, thank you for doing this. My pleasure. So we're sitting here

in your beautiful office in Manhattan. I'm looking around your office and seeing some unbelievable

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