WHOOP Podcast

Will Ahmed on Building WHOOP, The Future of Wearables, and What it Takes to Lead

Sep 14, 2022

01:09:54

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The Big Winds Are Related to Understanding Sleep

03:46

The Founding Story of Whoop

03:00

How Do You Measure Strain and Measure Recovery?

03:11

Introduction

2min

The Founding Story of Whoop

3min

How Do You Measure Strain and Measure Recovery?

3min

The Daily Cycle of Whoop

5min

I've Never Heard of Heart Variability

2min

Photoplus Mography - How Did You Get Started?

3min

What's the Key to Building Hardware?

3min

What Are the Early Lessons on the Business Side?

5min

How Did You Get to Professional Athletes?

1min

10.

What You Learned in the Second Phase of Marketing?

4min

11.

What Are the Inflection Points of Subscription Marketing?

2min

12.

The Big Sports Apparel Companies Lost That in the Evolution of the Technology

3min

13.

The Big Winds Are Related to Understanding Sleep

4min

14.

How Did You Develop Your Partnerships?

4min

15.

What's the Story of the Paddle Over Your Right Shoulder?

2min

16.

Health Monitoring Is Going to Change Everything About Our Health

3min

17.

What's the Relationship Between Data and Hardware?

3min

18.

How Do You Get Better at Leadership?

3min

19.

What Has Changed Most Like on the Ground?

4min

20.

Wearable Technology to Be Cool or Invisible?

2min

21.

Woop's Journey as a Business

3min

22.

Ike, Damn, That Was a Fun Day

5min

23.

What Is the Kindest Thing That Anyone Has Ever Doed for Me?

2min

This week, we're featuring an episode that originally aired on the Founder’s Field Guide podcast. Will Ahmed joins Patrick O’Shaugnessy to discuss the journey of founding and building WHOOP. They discuss how to quantify sleep, strain, and recovery (5:35), early lessons in building WHOOP (21:28), how WHOOP stays ahead of upcoming trends in the wearable space (18:45), what data beyond HRV will become more accessible and affordable to track (48:48), why WHOOP doesn’t have a screen and other key differentiators (58:13), and the lessons Will has learned in the past 10 years since founding WHOOP (52:01).

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