Will Ahmed

12 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 15, 2025 by Guy Raz · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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May 15, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Raz: LeBron James and Michael Phelps paid for WHOOP subscriptions
“He got it on the wrist of Michael Phelps and LeBron James without ever paying them. In fact, LeBron James and Michael Phelps paid him to use it. They paid for a subscription, and the way he did it Was by going to their trainers.”
Guy Raz May 15, 2025 ▶ 45:03 Advice Line with RJ Scaringe with Rivian
Jul 21, 2025
Disclosure
Ahmed: WHOOP printed 'Don't bother copying us' on its 4.0 circuit boards
“And so I wrote on every Ford auto circuit board. Don't bother copying us. We will win.”
Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 59:30 WHOOP: Will Ahmed
Jul 21, 2025
Insight
Ahmed: Understanding recovery requires monitoring time outside training
“Well, the immediate thing that I realized is that to understand recovery, you have to understand all the time outside of training. And once you kind of opened your aperture to that idea, you realize, well, maybe training is just a piece of this puzzle.”
Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 9:01 WHOOP: Will Ahmed
Jul 21, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Ahmed: WHOOP raised ~$10M by late 2014 and ~$25M by mid-2015
“Yeah, we had raised ten million dollars probably total by the end of 2014, and then we had probably raised twenty five million total by mid 2015.”
Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 38:39 WHOOP: Will Ahmed
Jul 21, 2025 positive
Insight
WHOOP's Ahmed: Data visualization is critical to wearable health businesses
“The way that we were going to visualize the data was actually going to end up becoming one of the most important characteristics of the business.”
Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 22:23 WHOOP: Will Ahmed
Jul 21, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ahmed: WHOOP was rejected by 95% of VCs during early fundraising
“I was strung out, and at that point, you know, going to VCs and getting rejected by 95% of them.”
Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 38:08 WHOOP: Will Ahmed
Jul 21, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ahmed: WHOOP raised $400K to build its wireless second prototype
“That's where the following prototype, which came, you know, maybe six months after that, and we'd raised another 400 grand. That prototype was able to do it without all the shenanigans of a wire and you know, a computer attached to your arm and so forth.”
Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 28:36 WHOOP: Will Ahmed
Jul 21, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ahmed: WHOOP survived on under three months of runway for 18 months
“And that 18 month stretch of like beginning of 2017 to mid 2018 whoop was on fumes. I mean, we never had more runway than three months for an 18 month period of the company.”
Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 55:08 WHOOP: Will Ahmed
Jul 21, 2025
Disclosure
Ahmed: WHOOP skipped a screen to prioritize sensor data collection
“We didn't have a high resolution screen. In part because we put all of our resourcing towards data collection.”
Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 31:48 WHOOP: Will Ahmed
Jul 21, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Ahmed: WHOOP has never done a down round in its history
“You know, remarkably in the company's history, we've never done a down round.”
Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 56:15 WHOOP: Will Ahmed
Jul 21, 2025 negative
Insight
Ahmed: Selling 100,000 units of a first hardware product is a mistake
“I meet hardware founders, and they talk a lot about How their first product is going to sell a 100,000 units in the first year. And I tell them that's actually the wrong goal. You really want your first product or your second product that goes to the consumer …”
Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 51:45 WHOOP: Will Ahmed
Jul 21, 2025 negative
Opinion
Ahmed: Nike made a fatal mistake designing FuelBand as a step counter
“The way in which they were wrong at assessing the story I was telling versus the strategy that Nike was pursuing was that Nike made, in my opinion, a fatal mistake with their product. They made a product that all of their best athletes would never use. It was …”
Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 35:06 WHOOP: Will Ahmed
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