WHOOP: Will Ahmed
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65 min
Read time
2 min
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Health & Wellness, Startups
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What It Covers
Will Ahmed transforms from Harvard squash player to founder of Whoop, building a sophisticated wearable device that measures heart rate variability, sleep stages, and recovery metrics for professional athletes.
Notable Moment
Ahmed wrote "don't bother copying us, we will win" on every Whoop 4.0 circuit board after Amazon launched a nearly identical product following their decision not to invest in the company.
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