Sep 16
Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.491]
Michael Moritz led Sequoia Capital for nearly two decades and backed some of the defining companies of the internet era. In his new memoir, Ausländer, he turns his attention to his own family, Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany and rebuilt their lives in Wales. We discuss the ... Show More
1h 12m
Sep 8
Walter Russell Mead - How America Keeps Winning - [Invest Like the Best, EP.490]
My guest today is Walter Russell Mead. Walter is a columnist at the Wall Street Journal and the author of Special Providence and God and Gold, two of the best books written on American power. He has spent decades studying how the United States came to dominate the world, and our ... Show More
1h 18m
Sep 1
Sarah Guo - Funding the Frontier - [Invest Like the Best, EP.489]
My guest today is Sarah Guo, founder and managing partner of Conviction, the venture firm she built to back AI-native companies from their earliest days. Sarah has become one of the most sought-after early-stage investors in AI, often the first check into the companies defining t ... Show More
59m 46s
Jan 2022
#64: Will Ahmed, WHOOP Founder & CEO—Prioritize the Right Data
Today's guest is Will Ahmed, the Founder and CEO of WHOOP, a wearable fitness tracker that measures a few key metrics to help top athletes and everyday consumers achieve peak performance. You're going to learn that Will is an incredibly sharp young leader. Believe it or not, he's ... Show More
55m 23s
Nov 2022
E001 - Will Ahmed (Whoop Founder): How I Grew a Multi-Billion Dollar Company From Nothing
In this introductory episode, I had the pleasure of conversing with Will Ahmed, the CEO of health & fitness monitoring brand ‘WHOOP’. The Whoop strap, renowned for its technology in analysing core health metrics, has become a mainstay in an athletes’ recovery regime owing to ... Show More
1h 4m
Sep 2022
Will Ahmed on Building WHOOP, The Future of Wearables, and What it Takes to Lead
<p>This week, we're featuring an episode that originally aired on the Founder’s Field Guide podcast. Will Ahmed joins Patrick O’Shaugnessy to discuss the journey of founding and building WHOOP. They discuss how to quantify sleep, strain, and recovery (5:35), early lessons in ... Show More
1h 9m
Nov 2025
How WHOOP’s 22 Year Old Founder Outsmarted Nike | Will Ahmed
As founder and CEO of WHOOP, Will Ahmed turned a college dorm room idea into one of the most influential performance technology companies in the world.In this episode, Will shares the leap of faith that started it all, the early rejections that tested his resolve, and the pivotal ... Show More
40m 47s
Oct 2021
E86 - Will Ahmed: How combining intensity, humility and passion can build a multi-billion dollar business.
<p>Will Ahmed is the founder and CEO of Whoop, the wearable device that monitors your recovery, sleep, training, and health. Will launched Whoop in 2012 whilst he was at college. As an athlete himself, he was constantly overtraining, and as a result, got interested in how he coul ... Show More
1h 29m
Mar 2021
Will Ahmed discusses entrepreneurship, building WHOOP, and the future of technology
<p>Will Ahmed sits down with Joe Bullmore of the Gentleman's Journal podcast to discuss everything about WHOOP and our journey over the last decade. This conversation is a deep dive on entrepreneurship, the future of wearable technology, and exactly how WHOOP is trying to un ... Show More
1h 5m
Oct 2022
Whoop Founder: How I Built A $3.6 BILLION Company & BEAT Apple! Will Ahmed
Will Ahmed is the founder of Whoop, the fitness monitoring app worn by LeBron James and Serena Williams, and which goes toe to toe with Apple, Google and Amazon.
Will is the classic example that business and entrepreneurial drive follow on from being obsessed with a problem. Aft ... Show More
1h 43m
My guest today is Will Ahmed, founder of fitness wearable company WHOOP. What started as a business plan in 2011 has evolved into the 24/7 health-tracking device you’ll often see on athletes across professional sports. During our conversation, Will and I discuss how his own backstory ties into the founding of WHOOP, the key design decisions they made in the ... Show More
<p>Will Ahmed is the founder of WHOOP a recovery-focused fitness tracker. </p>
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<p>In this episode, we explore the balance between ambition and gratitude, how Amazon copied his product, and the impact of personal choice in life and business. </p>
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