Why Failure is a Path to Progress, with Will Ahmed of WHOOP

As a D1 athlete, Will Ahmed became obsessed with the idea of
recovery. How do you unlock human performance, and what data would
you need to do so? This interest led to the creation of WHOOP, the
next gen wearable technology. Will started WHOOP in 2012,
immediately after graduating from Harvard College. Since then,
he's raised over $100M in funding, saw 7x member growth in the last
year alone, and has been worn by the likes of Lebron James and
Michael Phelps. Will shares how the product was born out of his own
over-training as an athlete, why he believes WHOOP is fundamentally
a data company, and why the most important part of being a CEO is
figuring out who to listen to—and when. Note: This episode was
recorded in early March, just as the Covid-19 outbreak took hold of
the U.S. Since then, WHOOP has been leveraging their data to
aid in health research.