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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.”
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.”
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 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 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'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.”
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 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.”
Whop experienced daily platform downtime in January 2025 from scaling issues
“We came back from December break. So like January, 20, 25, and we had incidents every single day. The website was going down every single day.”