Jack Sharky
Co-Founder and CTO, Whop. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Jack Sharkey co-founded Whop in 2021, directing the engineering team and infrastructure behind its digital marketplace. He is known for scaling the platform to over $1.2 billion in annual gross merchandise value run rate with a lean technical team.
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Everything Jack Sharky said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Sharky predicts AI tooling will eliminate junior engineer roles in big tech
“I don't think there's a world really for junior engineers at big organizations.”
Whop intentionally built no rollback plan for its zero-downtime database migration
“I had so many people ask me, like, what the rollback plan was, and I'm like, there is no rollback plan. Like, you know, we're not gonna spend an extra eight weeks building a rollback plan. We're just gonna do it well. And nail it the first time.”
Whop CTO kicked engineers out of standup for lacking personal Whop projects
“So first off, that is a true story. I got a lot of hate in the comments, people thinking that was rage bait. You had 300 comments. That is a true story. And I will show you the message. I actually told people that”
Sharky claims Whop can reach $10B GMV with just 10-20 engineers
“Like, I think we can, 10 X our volume, go up to, I don't know, ten billion plus GMV run rate with 10 to 20 people.”
Sharky predicts AI will end the era of thousand-engineer tech companies
“I think the days of tech companies scaling to thousands of engineers are behind us because what I've found is a smaller, more compact team of very talented people that understand how to break down problems and naturally use AI to go faster.”
Whop CTO prefers Google Gemini for coding due to fewer hallucinations
“I'm bullish on Gemini right now. I use it. I use it for a lot of my code right now, and I go back and forth, and it's really good at not being delirious. Like, at the end, it circles back to what you asked, which is beautiful. So I'm bullish on Gemini. That's …”
Y Combinator rejected Whop in 2021 over concerns about market size
“When we were first starting back in April, 20, 21, we actually applied to Y Combinator to try to get funding, and they denied us because they told us our market was too small.”
Whop migrated 800GB of databases to PlanetScale with zero downtime
“And that's how we moved about 800 gigabytes of data with zero downtime from Postgres to PlanetScale.”
Whop CTO considers it a 'dream' if employees quit for side projects
“And one of the comments was, which I found so ironic, they're like, what happens if one of these side projects takes off and they leave? I'm like, that's fucking great. Like, if someone can make a side, a project on WAP, a side project nonetheless, And generat…”
Whop processed over $108 million for creators in a single month
“Last month we processed just over a hundred eight million dollars on behalf of all our creators.”
Whop has raised about $80 million through Series B
“Yeah, so we've raised about, I want to say about eighty million dollars in total series B up to so far.”
Whop reached an $800 million valuation in its latest funding round
“The latest valuation was eight hundred million.”
Whop replaced Slack to run all company communication natively on Whop
“We don't have Slack anymore. All of our communication company-wide is on WAP.”
Whop hired over 50% to 60% of its team directly from the internet
“And our team actually, company-wide, I would say over 50, 60% of our team, we found on the internet. We found them on Discord servers. They were early users. They were, we DM'd them on Twitter and said, hey, move across the country.”
Whop is 80% in-person in NYC with a goal of 100%
“Our team is about 80%, hopefully soon a hundred percent in person out of New York.”
Whop's content rewards generated over 5 billion views in eight weeks
“We've done over five billion views generated in the last like eight-ish weeks.”
Whop reveals cap table with Thiel, Insight Partners, and Bain Capital
“Some of our earliest investors were people like Justin Mateen, founder of Tinder, Justin Khan, founder of Twitch Peter Thiel, and then we had our first series A raised led by Insight, and then Lately our Series B was led by A-Star and Kevin Hartz, founder of E…”
Sharky: Content Rewards Is Whop's Fastest-Growing Earner Acquisition Channel
“So we have other ways to earn, such as like content rewards, which is the fastest growing way that we have seen earners come.”
Whop reached an all-time high of 28,000 monthly active earners
“I think last month we were up to about 28,000 earners, which is
An all time high every month is getting obviously an all time high after each one.”
Whop creators who earn within their first week have 3x higher retention
“We know that if you come to a WAP and you earn your first seven days, you are three X likely you are three X more retentive to stay than someone who does not.”
Whop sends over 40 million notifications per day
“We send out over forty million notifications a day sometimes.”
Whop can handle flash drops of over one to two million requests
“Now we can handle flash drops of over a million or two million even at one point.”
Whop operates its $800M platform with a team of just 15-20 engineers
“Our team is about 15 to 20 people a mixture of full stack, web, iOS, Android engineers.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Jack's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 SOURCERYLEDGER | Co-Founder and CTO, Whop | 1 | 26 | — | full record on Sourcery → |