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Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker
Advice Line with Anthony Casalena of Squarespace
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WHOOP: Will Ahmed
- ▶ 1:00 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a college athlete changed the playing field for wearables by launching Whoop, a device that tells you things only your doctor once knew. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:48 Will Ahmed Yeah, there were, there were three people that in the sort of summer of 20 12 really mattered, and they would go on to matter a lot to whoop.
- ▶ 24:32 Guy Raz Let me come back in just a moment how Will launches Whoop and then reaches out to two of the world's best athletes to help make a name for it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:56 Will Ahmed I think that it was, it was pretty obvious to me that this was a business that actually was much more capital intensive than I had realized. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:25 Will Ahmed College athletes, um, recreational athletes, but I mean like data collections, you know, where you, you put a whoop on a wrist, uh, and you put a chest strap on them and you get them to go exercise.
- ▶ 35:29 Will Ahmed And the strategy that Nike, in my opinion, should have taken was much more similar to whoop, which was no, we're going to do the hard work. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:41 Guy Raz And I think it was around 2014 when you changed the name to WHOOP. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:13 Guy Raz But I wonder, before you even had, um, a product, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:20 Will Ahmed And so in the case of LeBron, like Mike Mencius was his longtime personal trainer, still is today, and he started wearing whoop. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:28 Will Ahmed And at the end of the day, it's kind of obvious whether someone likes whoop because wearing something, 24, seven is like, it's a, it's really hard. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:26 Guy Raz Um, and again, for people who aren't familiar with hoop, I think a lot of people listening are, it's, it's basically a strap. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:02 Guy Raz So it's 2017, and WHOOP has had some pretty big wins.
- ▶ 49:51 Will Ahmed The whoop strap is free. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:48 Will Ahmed And they did a lot of diligence on Whoop and, uh, it started with their deal team. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:15 Guy Raz New iterations, new versions of your product, and, uh, the, the, the whoop, two point
- ▶ 57:21 Guy Raz and then three point O comes out.
- ▶ 57:23 Guy Raz Um, and then Amazon announces they're making a monitor strap, a wearable band that, um, you feel looks quite shockingly similar to, to the whoop. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:30 Will Ahmed And so I wrote on every Ford auto circuit board.
- ▶ 1:01:41 Guy Raz And so I imagine, um, that some of these athletes, if not many of them, are investors in the company now. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:15 Guy Raz You know, um, and I don't always say this, uh, show, but, uh, cause I want to be neutral, but you have a great product. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:26 Guy Raz That's Will Ahmed, founder of Whoop. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with RJ Scaringe with Rivian
- ▶ 44:50 Guy Raz You know, we did, we did an episode on WHOOP, the WHOOP band, you know, this wristband that tracks, you know, all these things in your body, and the guy who founded it, Will Ahmed, he, it's amazing how he launched this thing.
- ▶ 44:50 Guy Raz You know, we did, we did an episode on WHOOP, the WHOOP band, you know, this wristband that tracks, you know, all these things in your body, and the guy who founded it, Will Ahmed, he, it's amazing how he launched this thing.
Fanatics: Michael Rubin
- ▶ 53:08 Michael Rubin And now, I got this whoop on my wrist.
Supercharging Lithium-Ion Batteries with Gene Berdichevsky of Sila Nanotechnologies
- ▶ 19:30 Guy Raz Alright, let's back up because, as you mentioned, it would take 10 years before your, your battery essentially was in a, is it was in a consumer product, which is the Whoop smart band that, um, it's a, it's a fitness tracker, essentially.
- ▶ 26:16 Guy Raz And in 2021, they worked with a company called Whoop to design a fitness tracking device with an improved battery. 3 times in the scene