First Things THRST

E001 - Will Ahmed (Whoop Founder): How I Grew a Multi-Billion Dollar Company From Nothing

Nov 13, 2022

01:04:03

Episode guests

Will Ahmed

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

How to Overcome the Fear of Failure

03:49

Motivate Your Team to Perform at Their Best

02:11

How Did You Overtrain as a Student Athlete?

01:54

Introduction

2min

Become an Entrepreneur Before You Even Know What an Entrepreneur Is

2min

How Did You Overtrain as a Student Athlete?

2min

How Did Photoplasmography Measure Heart Rate Variability Continuously?

3min

How Did You Get Your First Users?

3min

Wootstrap

4min

I've Learnt So Much About My Body and I Want to Be in the Green

3min

Is Woop a Good Way to Track Calories Burned?

4min

Is Woop Tracking Your Steps Really Relevant?

2min

10.

How Long Did It Take to Learn Meditation?

5min

11.

Is Your Business Doing Great Today?

3min

12.

How Does Woot Make You Feel?

5min

13.

Motivate Your Team to Perform at Their Best

2min

14.

The Supply Chain Disruption of the Whoop Four

4min

15.

How to Overcome the Fear of Failure

4min

16.

Are You Having a Hard Time Building Whoops?

3min

17.

Are You Finding It Difficult to Be Around People Who Are More Successful Than You?

4min

18.

Are You Building a Business?

3min

19.

The Challenge of Being the Individual Contributor Versus the Manager

2min

20.

The Importance of Focus

2min

21.

Why Should I Go for Woop?

3min

In this introductory episode, I had the pleasure of conversing with Will Ahmed, the CEO of health & fitness monitoring brand ‘WHOOP’. The Whoop strap, renowned for its technology in analysing core health metrics, has become a mainstay in an athletes’ recovery regime owing to its actionable and personalised insights on performance enhancement.

Our conversation covered a wide range of subjects, some of which are highlighted below;

» Topics «
Entrepreneurship
Stress management and meditation
Measuring sleep for strength, recovery and well-being
Overcoming fear failure and rejection
REM, deep and slow wave sleep
The history of Whoop
Motivation
Balancing ambition and gratitude

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First Things THRST

E001 - Will Ahmed (Whoop Founder): How I Grew a Multi-Billion Dollar Company From Nothing

Episode guests

How to Overcome the Fear of Failure

Motivate Your Team to Perform at Their Best

How Did You Overtrain as a Student Athlete?

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