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Light sleep and time spent awake provide no physiological benefit
“Awake and light are pretty much irrelevant. You're not getting any physiological benefit from being in awake or light stage sleep REM and slow wave. That's where all the magic happens.”
Will Ahmed Jan 26, 2023 ▶ 14:28 How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
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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)
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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)
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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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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)
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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)
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