Whoop

“Oh, and also, the wonderful kiss of death, SoftBank, and then Kevin Durant and other athletes are investing. You know, that's called the sucker round. It's not called the Series F, it's called the sucker round.”

“I think we'll ultimately go public. I think that it'll probably be sooner than that timeframe that you gave.”

“The data says it's highly personal. So you could put two people on identical diets and they could have literally the exact opposite effects on those people.”

“Yeah, we've raised four hundred million. We last raised capital at 3.6 billion dollar valuation.”

“I read something like 500 medical papers, and I started to conceive of this idea of how you could continuously measure the human body”

“That is real, and this would have been around 2014, 2015, so, you know, we spent about two to three years, really, on the initial V-one of Whoop, and, you know, I wanted to start with the best athletes in the world”

“And it's not like this is the first, just the first company I started. It's my first full-time job.”

“Interestingly, hard, harder, harder sleep drugs, like the ambience of the world they knock you out, so your sleep latency is short, but the quality of the sleep is never that high.”

“We used to sell the product for 500 dollars, one time fee, everything included. Then we went to, you can sign up for as little as 30 dollars.”

“I don't think I ever sold shares until whoop was worth at least a billion dollars. And they were for rounds that were super oversubscribed.”

“I do think for a company that's at a later stage where you're trying to, you're making this calculus of, is this a company that's going to be acquired in a short period of time, or is this a company that we're trying to build to be a standalone business? And I…”

“A lot of sleep is the more you think about sleep, the more pressure you put on sleep, the worse the sleep is, which is why a lot of these, if I was the CMO of Whoop or Aura, the one thing I would suggest them to do, like coming in as a product thing, would be …”