Whoop Founder: How I Built A $3.6 BILLION Company & BEAT Apple! Will Ahmed | E189

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

October 24, 2022

Duration

1h 47m

Channel

The Diary of a CEO

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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 Are you ready to think like a CEO? Gain access to the 100 CEOs newsletter here: ⁠https://bit.ly/100-ceos-newsletter Will: https://bit.ly/3VX7chq Whoop: https://bit.ly/3F46h97 Wait list for The Diary: https://bit.ly/3fUcF8q Join this channel to get access to perks: https://bit.ly/3Dpmgx5 Listen on: Apple podcast - https://apple.co/3TTvxDf Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3VX3yEw Follow: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3CXkF0d Twitter: https://bit.ly/3ss7pM0 Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3z3CSYM Telegram: https://g2ul0.app.link/SBExclusiveCommunity Sponsors: Amex - https://bit.ly/3TATNKc Huel - https://g2ul0.app.link/G4RjcdKNKsb Mercedes-Benz - https://bit.ly/3yXTQI1 Craftd - https://g2ul0.app.link/gZ8in6Dsvsb

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• Will Ahmed

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• Steven Bartlett

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Diary of a CEO, featuring Will Ahmed and Steven Bartlett, Whoop Founder: How I Built A $3.6 BILLION Company & BEAT Apple! Will Ahmed | E189 explores how Whoop Beat Giants: Focus, Recovery, And Relentless Founder Resilience Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of $3.6B health-tech company Whoop, explains how an obsessive curiosity about human performance led him from Harvard athlete to building what he argues is the most accurate health wearable on the market.

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