Whoop Founder: How I Built A $3.6 BILLION Company & BEAT Apple! Will Ahmed

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Will Ahmed is the founder of Whoop, the fitness monitoring app worn by LeBron James and Serena Williams, and which goes toe to toe with Apple, Google and Amazon. Will is the classic example that business and entrepreneurial drive follow on from being obsessed with a problem. After repeatedly getting injured in his college sports career, Will became obsessed with understanding his own body. He read over five hundred medical papers and realised the product he was pining for didn’t exist, so he invented it. Will has one of the most original perspectives on how to bring your personality to your business that we’ve ever seen. Employees at Whoop get a bonus if their sleep is good, and the company is ruthless in its priorities to make sure it’s only focused on a couple of things at a time. All of this means Whoop has some of the best wearable tech on the market, despite only a fraction of the resources of its competitors. Follow Will: Instagram - https://bit.ly/3VX7chq Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Quick One of my favorite brands that I use literally every single day is now sponsoring this podcast and that is Uber eats on a day on a day one in the morning and one in the afternoon
0:10.6	I'll drop a group order link in our team chat for one of our favorite restaurants
0:15.0	whether it's Joe in the Juice or somewhere new
0:17.0	and I'll set a time window for the team to order
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0:33.0	So two of our first hundred users were like Ron James and Michael Phelps.
0:37.0	Fucking out.
0:38.0	A 3.6 billion dollar company.
0:41.0	Wearable health and fitness coach will be found the of work.
0:44.0	Will O'Ed.
0:45.0	You know, Nike and Apple and a dozen other companies were entering the space.
0:50.0	But when it comes to health monitoring, we're the best game in town.
0:53.5	That really came from an insane level of focus in the beginning
0:56.6	on what we were trying to solve.
0:58.3	One of the reasons Woop has been successful
1:00.8	is there were a lot of counterintuitive decisions along that journey.
1:05.0	One obvious one is that...
1:07.0	Interesting.
1:08.0	I shall steal that.
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