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in 2022 i put 2 strangers in a group chat. it turned into $1B.
i told cory that ali wasn’t the standard silicon valley type, that he was hungry, and that he’d break $1 million in revenue between his two companies.
cory wrote his first check, and ali has spent 4 years proving him right.
he turned micro1 into a billion dollar/year business with 180 people (all remote btw) and just priced a round at $4 billion.
i do this constantly. if i meet someone and i know who they should know, they’re in a group chat that night. no scheduling, no waiting for the right moment.
keep up the killer work!! @aliansarinikView quoted post on X
YC rejected Whop in fall 2021 batch, but there was a better program that accepted Whop and that was Z Fellows.View quoted post on X
Cory was the first check in Whop, has been by our side through it all, and joined our board when it was formed.
ZF >
Whop has raised $200M in Series D funding at a $5.1B valuation, backed by @sequoia and @shopify.
It really feels like we are barely touching the tip of the iceberg in a market larger than anyone can imagine.
We first launched Whop as a better way for us to sell sneaker bots, one of the most niche types of desktop software out there.
Total TAM? Probably $20,000 per day.
Who cares, tiny market.
But, what people discounted is the idea that there were actually 70,000 other markets exactly like that one.
Beyond the investment itself, I am especially excited to welcome legendary silicon valley investor @dougleone to our board of directors. Doug and the sequoia team are nothing but a brilliant, resourceful, and principled group of people.
My co-founder Cameron and I started building on Shopify when we were 13 years old. Shopify is one of the most impactful all-in-one cloud ecosystems ever created; @tobi has pioneered modern entrepreneurship the way we know it and we are thrilled to have him in our corner.
We have a tenet at Whop to be the dumbest in the room and I am very grateful that this has recently become a lot easier.
We are focused on markets, scale economies, and progressive media. If that is up your alley, please message me directly.
The $200M raised will support our expansion as we build economic infrastructure for the next century, continuing on our mission of delivering everyone an income.View quoted post on X
