The Metrics That Matter: Whoop Founder Will Ahmed On Why Most People Get Fitness Wrong, Why Recovery Beats Intensity, & The Science of Human Potential
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the neurosurgeon comes in, the vascular surgeon comes in. And at the last minute, I'm like, can I wear my whoop? Increasing we get the message like subject line whoop saved my life. Was that always the vision? Or do you look around amazed and surprised that you went from there to here? I'd played sports my whole life and I was someone who used to overtrain. Garmin is like the 800 pound gorilla in the room. And then you have Apple and the Apple Watch. It's, you know, arguably a crowded marketplace. I had an advantage in a strange way. In that
I didn't know anything about what I was looking at. The pressure on you has to be insane with the amount of money you raised and the expectations that come with that. I was not Fit to be a CEO. I woke up in the hospital with a panic attack. That was a big wake up call for me. How's it going, everybody? Welcome. To the podcast.
So Today is day fifty five. Fifty five days post spinal fusion surgery. Uh but I'm recording this in advance, so by the time You hear this, it will be day sixty six.
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