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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Whoop comes up
Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 1:03:03 Harry Stebbings I saw the whoop.
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 39:30 David Frankel It's WHOOP. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:03 David Frankel Fund Two, Vokada, Shield, Whoop, Pill Pack.
- ▶ 53:23 David Frankel Like, I look at, uh, Whoop versus Suno. 2 times in the scene
Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
- ▶ 48:30 Harry Stebbings Dude, you'd know that we wear a whoop and we don't drink martinis because it impacts our sleep score, but okay.
Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:14 Harry Stebbings Um, your whoop or your aura must absolutely hate you and your sleep score must be shit respectfully.
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:37 Harry Stebbings Um, the business is actually in incredible shape, both actually, and we announced today that they raised 5 times in the scene
Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:15 Rory O'Driscoll And I mean, the obvious counter example is some of the devices like Aura and Whoop around fitness and health, where there are standalone hardware devices, but it's, it's traditionally a hard space.
20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
- ▶ 52:12 Harry Stebbings I have Will on the show from Whoop, and he was talking in the early days about, you know, not giving anyone equity.
20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes Truly Great Product
- ▶ 20:49 Fernando Fanton I love Whoop, the device. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:02 Fernando Fanton I think whoop, again, does a good job of that.
- ▶ 51:41 Fernando Fanton I think, I think Whoop is similar in the sense to use the same example, like it takes seven days to see any, any result, right? 3 times in the scene
20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment
- ▶ 55:41 Harry Stebbings We have an Apple watch with an aura ring and a whoop on the other wrist.
Phil Carter: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Discounts, Paywalls... | E1204 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:52 Harry Stebbings You mentioned or there's whoop as well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:41 Phil Carter Like, if you drop 304 hundred dollars on an Aura ring or a Whoop band, you're gonna be more invested in, in using it and getting maximum value out of it.
Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:33 Harry Stebbings No, I think that was his whoop. 2 times in the scene
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:37:27 Harry Stebbings Have you tried Whoop and Aura? 2 times in the scene
20VC: When to Make Your First Growth Hire? Senior or Junior? How To Onboard Them? How To Monitor Their Progress? from Growth Leaders @ Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Instacart, Miro and more
- ▶ 10:51 Harry Stebbings If you haven't checked that one out, then it is a must, but I'm so excited now for Ed Baker, growth advisor to startups like Lime, Zwift, Whoop.
20VC: Scaling to $122M ARR IPO with $6M in Net Burn, Olo. The Ultimate Journey of Capital Efficiency, What Worked, What Did Not Work and How Leaders Need To Reshape Thinking Around Resource and Attention Allocation
- ▶ 11:27 Noah Glass I remember I listened to the Whoop episode. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:05 Harry Stebbings You mentioned listening to the Will Ahmad show from Whoop.
20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
- ▶ 0:50 Harry Stebbings Somesh, Michael, Tom, Kak, Steve at IVP, as well as Will at Whoop, David at Masterclass,
- ▶ 3:45 Harry Stebbings David at Masterclass, Will at Whoop, your partners, Jules, and many others on your team, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 33:54 Eric Liaw Thanks to Whoop, I think last night I decided not to have a second cocktail. 3 times in the scene
20Growth: Five Key Functions of a Growth Team, The Biggest Lessons Starting Uber's Growth Team and Scaling Facebook's, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth and What Separates Good From Great in Growth Leaders with Ed Baker, Former VP of Growth @
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings Now, Ed is an angel investor and growth advisor to various startups, including Lime, Zwift, Whoop, Crimson Education, GoPeer, and Playbook.
- ▶ 2:40 Harry Stebbings As I said, I heard so many great things from so many people before this episode, especially Will at Whoop.
- ▶ 18:27 Ed Baker In that case, you know, the company I'm working with right now, whoop, that's where growth lives within whoop right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:37 Harry Stebbings You know, obviously now you invest in companies, and I heard just the best things from, you know, Will at Whoop in particular.
- ▶ 46:58 Ed Baker Because I'm an investor and I'm on the board, but I've been really impressed with what Whoop has been doing related to growth. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings This guest has been there for me throughout my entire journey, and he's one of the wisest mentors and advisors I could have asked for, and so I'm thrilled to welcome David Frankel, co-founder and managing partner at Founder Collective, one…
20VC: Whoop Founder, Will Ahmed on How CEOs Can Perform at their Highest Level, Why There is Value in Struggle Early On, Why Realism is Overrated in Startups and How To Create a Culture of Delegated Decision-Making
- ▶ 0:07 Harry Stebbings However, with it being the new year and the start of January, with many looking to change behaviours, adopt healthier behaviours and routines, I thought it'd be a really timely episode today, as we welcome an individual reshaping the world… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:18 Will Ahmed Well, I think a lot of my background being an athlete and growing up loving sports and exercise led me to founding Whoop, which is the company that I've been building for the last 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:18 Harry Stebbings When we looked today at Whoop and the 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:07 Will Ahmed So in the case of Whoop, that was having the right influential people falling in love with the product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:13 Will Ahmed You know, the three of us are still going nine years later, and that's probably one of the things I'm most proud of about building Whoop, because for a company that had to overcome a lot of challenges, especially engineering challenges,…
- ▶ 19:56 Will Ahmed For Whoop, we decided early on that moving quickly in the space was going to be a differentiator for us. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:04 Harry Stebbings You made him join Whoop over Facebook or Google Health. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:51 Will Ahmed And it could be that I was a very young person when I started Whoop, you know, 21, 22 years old. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:13 Will Ahmed Well, look, you know, when you're building a capital intensive business like Whoop, there can be moments that are challenging to raise capital. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:11 Will Ahmed Well, one from a Whoop standpoint was I really enjoyed 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:22 Harry Stebbings Such an exciting time ahead for Whoop, and if you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, of course you can on the twentyminutevc.com.
20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP
- ▶ 41:36 Elena Verna I got myself into fitness recently, and I got whooped to track my strain, my sleep, my recovery, and I'm blown away by their growth tactics. 3 times in the scene