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Will Ahmed

11 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 26, 2023 by Will Ahmed · across every show →

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Jan 26, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Ahmed: More REM sleep dampens amygdala fight-or-flight response
“The interesting thing about REM sleep is researchers were able to find the more REM sleep you get, the less heightened your amygdala response.”
Will Ahmed Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 19:26 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
Jan 26, 2023 neutral
Insight
Ahmed: Naps often yield lower sleep efficiency and quality
“The challenge with naps is that the percentage of time that you spend in, in trying to sleep is often lower as a quality standpoint.”
Will Ahmed Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 26:20 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
Jan 26, 2023
Insight
Ahmed: Biometric Data Shows Diet Response Is Highly Personalized
“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.”
Will Ahmed Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 48:03 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
Jan 26, 2023
Assertion Supported
Ahmed: Whoop raised $400M and reached a $3.6B valuation
“Yeah, we've raised four hundred million. We last raised capital at 3.6 billion dollar valuation.”
Will Ahmed Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 5:35 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
Jan 26, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Will Ahmed read roughly 500 medical papers while founding Whoop
“I read something like 500 medical papers, and I started to conceive of this idea of how you could continuously measure the human body”
Will Ahmed Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 2:02 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
Jan 26, 2023
Disclosure
Ahmed: Whoop is my first company and first full-time job
“And it's not like this is the first, just the first company I started. It's my first full-time job.”
Will Ahmed Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 8:06 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
Jan 26, 2023 negative
Insight
Ahmed: Sleeping pills reduce sleep quality despite faster sleep onset
“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.”
Will Ahmed Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 21:46 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
Jan 26, 2023
Insight
Founders must shift to managers by 50 employees or risk business damage
“The percent of time in which you think of yourself as an individual contributor versus a manager has to shift very dramatically. I think probably around the size of. 50 people, it has to shift like that. Like it was about 500 people, but. That's probably one o…”
Will Ahmed Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 8:31 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
Jan 26, 2023 negative
Opinion
Ahmed: Athletes are still not sophisticated enough about sleep and recovery
“I still think athletes aren't sophisticated enough about sleep and recovery, given how important it is to their overall performance”
Will Ahmed Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 21:29 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
Jan 26, 2023
Disclosure
Will Ahmed refused to sell Whoop secondary shares until a $1B valuation
“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.”
Will Ahmed Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 29:45 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
Jan 26, 2023 positive
Insight
Ahmed: Late-stage founder secondaries enable long-term independent business building
“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…”
Will Ahmed Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 30:09 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
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