Haim Bender

@willahmed @WHOOP Can you make it nice looking, like better then a watch, now that you have all that money. I hate taking it of whenever I go on dates 3y lawyal customer here

BREAKING: WHOOP RAISES $575M AT $10.1B VALUATION  I am pleased to announce that we’ve raised $575M at a $10.1B valuation to accelerate our mission of unlocking human performance and healthspan globally. This round was led by Collaborative Fund with participation from 2PointZero Group, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Mubadala Investment Company, Abbott, Mayo Clinic, Macquarie Capital, Glade Brook, B-Flexion, IVP, Foundry, Accomplice, Affinity Partners, Promus Ventures, and Bullhound Capital alongside a group of individual investors including Cristiano Ronaldo, LeBron James, Rory McIlroy, Virgil van Dijk, and Mathieu van der Poel. This investor group and this moment reflect a powerful evolution underway for Whoop and the broader healthcare market. Whoop was born in performance - trusted by the best athletes in the world to train, recover, and compete at the highest level. That foundation remains core to who we are. You see that in the iconic athlete investors joining this round.  But it also represents our push into broader health.  In the past 12 months, WHOOP has received medical clearances, launched blood testing, and created a platform that has saved lives. Abbott and Mayo Clinic - two of the most respected and influential institutions in global healthcare - are now investors in Whoop. These are organizations that have shaped modern medicine. Their decision to partner with us is a clear validation of where our technology is headed. Healthcare systems around the world are reactive. For too long, they have waited for people to get sick, then intervene. Chronic disease is rising and costs continue to climb. At Whoop, we believe the future looks fundamentally different. We are building the most powerful, personal, preventive health platform in the world - powered by continuous biometric data, advanced analytics, and AI to help people understand their bodies and improve their health in real time. I am grateful to our team, our members, and our partners for believing in this vision. I’ve been building this company for 14 years and I’ve never been more excited for the future.

@adamcohenhillel פשששש

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@donatelli2026 Yeah it has a bunch of ppl tweeting about how SF is great lol real great places are kept secret so that the it doesn't ruin

I've lived in 5 countries, lived in 10 different cities and travelled to 30+ countries I can tell you for a FACT that San Francisco has something that no other city have

@signulll why would u be an expert on what it takes for this? 😂

starting a consumer company is basically opting into pain as a lifestyle. you need this weird, almost contradictory stack which is taste + timing, future intuition + present execution, & culture fluency + product rigor. most ppl have like… one of these. maybe two if they’re lucky. oh the worst thing is that there’s no clean feedback loop. ain’t no tidy dashboards telling you you’re right. it’s mostly vibes, weak signals, & ridiculously delayed validation if it comes at all (kinda like being in a toxic situationship). you’re effectively betting on something that doesn’t fully exist yet, using instincts you can’t quite articulate, in a market that will happily ignore you until it suddenly doesn’t. this is one of the most asymmetric games you can play but also one of the least coherent while you’re in it. i think of it as playing a video game in hall of fame difficulty with no tutorial & half the UI missing.

@tbpn @bchesky @bchesky bro, how did u get so large? what supplements u takin? <- @bryan_johnson u guys should collab!

Airbnb CEO @bchesky says more AI founders should be starting consumer businesses. "I'm on the board of Y Combinator. 87% of companies are enterprise companies per batch." "Enterprise is awesome... but the biggest prize is consumer. That is what's going to reach daily life for billions of people." "Think about all the little parts of daily life that are kind of annoying. Pay attention to whoever's in your life and ask: 'How could their daily life be a little bit easier?'" From his appearance on the show in January.

@matthuang i heard u say this on the kalshi prodcast, can you say more on the subject, i feel like compute markets have to be scheduled, cuz you can't redeem it all in one go, cuz there's limited bandwidth per supplier

More institutional markets coming to Kalshi (e.g. non-farm payrolls, etc) One area I'm particularly excited about is markets around compute

@_Dave__White_ hi, what are your top 2?

I have ideas coming out of my ears right now the challenge is going to be, I think, how fast and how minimally can I execute on each to keep the flow going watch this space

@_Dave__White_ what are the top 2 things u would build?

if i had an extremely cracked team already gelled and at my frequency, my god, the shit we could build

@AutismCapital sounds nice, but is this backed by science?

Life pro tip. Not enough people talk about this. The secret to having a "fulfilling" life is doing new things. Radically doing new things. Consistently. Every day. New activities, people, goals, even something as simple as trying new foods. Life feels longer when you're a kid because every day is packed with almost infinite amount of new learning. As you get older, you've already acclimated to your environment, the new inputs stop, so your perception of time speeds up drastically. You fall into routine, which is a time accelerant. If you want to feel like you have a long infinite lifespan, like you did as a child, you MUST be having new experiences, which slows time down.

@liadagmon תחפש בbehance הם נמצאים שם, תמיין לפי העבודות הכי יפות

מי איש/אשת הUX/UI הכי טובים שאתם מכירים, שיש להם את ה X Factor, שאתם מכירים אישית ומקצועית, ושהם Available כפרילנסרים או מחפשים משרה מלאה? אפשר כמובן גם לשלוח לי בפרטי. פליז, רק כשרונות יוצאי דופן 😅

@samhogan can u do this NYC pls 🙂

I’m hosting dinner parties again. 8-10 people, twice per month in San Francisco. If you are a founder, and especially if you are NOT a founder, and you would like to come for an evening of good food and conversation, send me a DM First dinner is March 27

@AutismCapital u know that bro wrote this in assembly with no AI

This is actually heaven.

לא יודע, לא ראיתי אותם מפרסם משהו איכותי, גם שהוא מדבר על דברים שאני מבין בהם לעומק הוא מחרטת בקשר לפוסט, קודם כל זו מחשבה שרצה לכולם בראש כבר לפחות 18 חודשים, ולדעתי יש מוטים שקשה לשבור גם עם AI, לדוגמא מותגים או network effects מוטים בכללי הם מאוד פרטניים לשווקים ספצפים ולדעת טעות להכליל

פרספקטיבה מעניינת של צ׳מאט. בשולי הדברים: התחברנו ב-2007, כשעוד היה VP Growth בפייסבוק, וכבר אז הוא היה שחקן פוקר מאוד חריף (ומאוד בטוח בעצמו). הוא הזמין אותי כמה פעמים לשחק איתו ועם החבר׳ה שלו, אבל הם שיחקו על סכומים שגם היום לא הייתי מוכן לשחק בהם. אז אם יש משהו שצ׳מאט מבין בו טוב, זה תוחלת.

@adamcohenhillel Can you recommend something like that but in NYC?

Hosted Shabbat in SF checkout isravalley.com if you want to join the next one!

@typesfast @grok how many dino’s have to die millions of years ago to make that fireball?

I always thought Hollywood explosions were super fake over the top exaggerations until this week when I saw actual oil tankers getting blown up.

@DannyLeshem שמתי 3k$ על סוף החודש, כבר לא כזה בטוח בזה

השוק מתמחר כרגע שהאירוע מול איראן יקח זמן: 75% שימשך מעבר ל-15/3, ו-60% שימשך מעבר לסוף החודש.

@niv_tomer or the US$ is hyper inflationary

Israel is entering its hyper-growth phase?

@zerohedge @grok what does this mean?

*HOUSE DEMOCRATS SEEK IRAN WAR POWERS RESOLUTION VOTE NEXT WEEK

@blondspit I think Leonardo DiCaprio's life is better

Nobody’s life is better than a slutty hot girl in NYC