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Will Ahmed
Founder & CEO, WHOOP
Founded WHOOP as a Harvard student; the health wearable tracks strain, recovery and sleep.
Real Alpha has cut 4 moments of Will Ahmed (Founder & CEO, WHOOP) talking, from an interview on Inside Blackstone published Sep 15, 2026.
What Will Ahmed said
WHOOP Founder Will Ahmed: The Body as Data, Sleep Science & the Future of Healthcare
4 moments · 11 min
- 8:47
Ahmed saw wearables bringing computers onto the body
“And I thought eventually they would be on your body.”
at 9:06 - 11:31
WHOOP’s membership pivot turned engagement into recurring revenue
“Sometimes when things are really broken, it allows you to just reinvent it. And so that's when we came up with this idea of WHOOP as a membership.”
at 13:11 - 16:47
Ahmed says health AI’s advantage depends on access to data
“One of the most interesting things with AI in general, but I think is particularly true of healthcare, is who has the data. It's all about the data”
at 17:46 - 14:41
WHOOP's FDA dispute hinged on whether its feature made a diagnosis
“if a product is not providing a medical diagnosis, the FDA actually should not be regulating it as a medical device.”
at 15:31
- 8:47
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