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Whop intentionally built no rollback plan for its zero-downtime database migration
“I had so many people ask me, like, what the rollback plan was, and I'm like, there is no rollback plan. Like, you know, we're not gonna spend an extra eight weeks building a rollback plan. We're just gonna do it well. And nail it the first time.”
Whop CTO kicked engineers out of standup for lacking personal Whop projects
“So first off, that is a true story. I got a lot of hate in the comments, people thinking that was rage bait. You had 300 comments. That is a true story. And I will show you the message. I actually told people that”
Whop CTO considers it a 'dream' if employees quit for side projects
“And one of the comments was, which I found so ironic, they're like, what happens if one of these side projects takes off and they leave? I'm like, that's fucking great. Like, if someone can make a side, a project on WAP, a side project nonetheless, And generat…”
Whop has raised about $80 million through Series B
“Yeah, so we've raised about, I want to say about eighty million dollars in total series B up to so far.”
Whop reached an $800 million valuation in its latest funding round
“The latest valuation was eight hundred million.”
Whop replaced Slack to run all company communication natively on Whop
“We don't have Slack anymore. All of our communication company-wide is on WAP.”
Whop is 80% in-person in NYC with a goal of 100%
“Our team is about 80%, hopefully soon a hundred percent in person out of New York.”
Whop reveals cap table with Thiel, Insight Partners, and Bain Capital
“Some of our earliest investors were people like Justin Mateen, founder of Tinder, Justin Khan, founder of Twitch Peter Thiel, and then we had our first series A raised led by Insight, and then Lately our Series B was led by A-Star and Kevin Hartz, founder of E…”