Whoop Founder: How I Built A $3.6 BILLION Company & BEAT Apple! Will Ahmed | E189
- Oct 23, 2022
- 1:47:36
- Full Episode
Will Ahmed is the founder of Whoop, the fitness monitoring app worn by LeBron James and Michael Phelps, and which goes toe to toe with Apple, Google and Amazon.
Topics: 0:00 Intro 02:02 Early years 04:00 What was it that made you obsessed with optimising performance? 08:26 Are you a curious person? 15:43 Your business becoming your identity 18:19 How to stay calm in the chaos 23:26 Did you have doubt in the early days? 27:28 Co-founders 31:50 The most difficult time for you 40:05 Like style hacks - your day to day routines 47:28 Heart rate variability 52:36 Blue light blocking 57:57 Strain on the body 01:04:41 Employee sleep bonus 01:06:10 How do you keep your innovative nature when growing 01:09:37 Focusing 01:17:35 Competition 01:25:55 The importance of the right investors 01:27:26 We both hate networking 01:28:18 Listening to feedback with a different perspective 01:32:02 Being counterintuitive 01:34:01 Were you wrong about anything with Whoop? 01:35:48 Offers to buy whoop 01:39:19 Whats next 01:41:20 The last guest question
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Brief Summary
Will Ahmed discusses building Whoop, health monitoring, and managing stress while sharing personal challenges and insights on entrepreneurship.
Key points
- The Power of Showing Up. A childhood lesson emphasizes the importance of participation and presence in life.
- A Pivotal Panic Attack. A panic attack prompted a major reset in how he approached building his company.
- Meditation as a Game Changer. Meditation transformed his approach to stress and decision-making as an entrepreneur.
- The Importance of Co-founders. Choosing the right co-founders is critical; commitment, intensity, and humility are key traits.
- Coping with Stress. Success may come from overcoming stress that would break most people.
- Heart Rate Variability Explained. Heart rate variability is a crucial indicator of health and recovery.
Episode highlights
- The Power of Showing UpA childhood lesson emphasizes the importance of participation and presence in life.“90% of life is showing up.”1:04Oct 23, 2022
- A Pivotal Panic AttackA panic attack prompted a major reset in how he approached building his company.“I had a panic attack... I had to really reset how I'm building this company.”19:03Oct 23, 2022
- Meditation as a Game ChangerMeditation transformed his approach to stress and decision-making as an entrepreneur.“Meditation has been a game changer.”23:24Oct 23, 2022
- The Importance of Co-foundersChoosing the right co-founders is critical; commitment, intensity, and humility are key traits.“Commitment, intensity, humility.”29:37Oct 23, 2022
- Coping with StressSuccess may come from overcoming stress that would break most people.“Success may come for people when they overcome a level of stress.”36:15Oct 23, 2022
- Heart Rate Variability ExplainedHeart rate variability is a crucial indicator of health and recovery.“Heart rate variability is one of the core statistics that we look at as a lens into how restored your body is.”47:39Oct 23, 2022
- The Importance of REM SleepREM sleep is critical for cognitive repair and overall health.“REM sleep is when your mind is repairing cognitively; it's when you'll have deep dreams.”54:20Oct 23, 2022
- Innovative Company CultureWhoop promotes good sleep habits among employees with a sleep bonus program.“If you get 85 percent sleep performance on average, you get a hundred dollar bonus.”1:05:18Oct 23, 2022
