Will Ahmed
13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 5, 2022 by Will Ahmed · said 12 times in 4 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- 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 @
- 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
- 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
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Jan 5, 2022
Startup Output Shifts From Individuals to Management at 50 Employees
“At some point, it's probably close to 50 people, but definitely between 50 and a hundred people, the output of the organization becomes much more about the overall team than any singular, you know, effort you're making, or any singular contribution you're maki…”
Jan 5, 2022 positive
Growing Startups Must Eliminate Committees to Maintain Decision Speed
“In general, I try to cut as much slack out of processes as possible. I think that as you grow and as you have more people in an organization, there's sort of this urge to focus Form more committees and form more meetings. And I think the more you can just cut …”
Jan 5, 2022
Winning Star Athletes Requires Building Relationships With Their Personal Trainers
“And the key to getting these high profile people is often finding someone in their life who's more influential to them than other people realize, and for the most part is somewhat unknown. And in the case of Professional athletes that often turns out to be the…”
Jan 5, 2022 negative
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Jan 5, 2022 positive
Whoop Deliberately Avoided Replacing Personal Trainers to Accelerate Product Adoption
“Now, personal trainer was also someone that we actually wanted to empower. We didn't want to disrupt, right? So we could have built technology that said, this is going to replace your trainer and this is going to replace your coach. But we were pretty mindful …”
Jan 5, 2022 neutral
Jan 5, 2022 neutral
Whoop Spent Tens of Millions Over Seven Years Before Finding Its Model
“We had this hairy moment where we were transitioning from being a hardware business to being a subscription. That ended up being the right decision for the business, but it also demonstrated that we were Seven years in and hadn't quite found our business model…”
Jan 5, 2022 negative
Jan 5, 2022 positive
Deep-Tech Startups Should Raise Maximum Early Capital to Offset Risk
“And so I think for businesses that have that ambition where they're trying to build something that's never existed before, And frankly, it has a lot of existential technology risk, which our business certainly did early on. I do think raising a lot of capital …”
Jan 5, 2022 positive
Whoop's Three Original Co-Founders Remain Together After Nine Years
“In my case, John Capitalupo, who's our chief technology officer, who I met when he was 19, he dropped out of Harvard to build this business with me, and Aurelian Nikolai, who graduated the same year as me at Harvard, who's our lead mechanical engineer. You kno…”