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Ryan Ouyang

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@ryanouyang

head of platform API @whop
San Francisco, CA Joined March 2019
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Ryan Ouyang Verified account @ryanouyang
who's building the new Miniclip?
Felix Rieseberg Verified account @felixrieseberg 2d
I wanted to test Fable 5.2's quality with one-shot prompts without human feedback.

Everything in this game is from scratch: models, sounds, textures. ~$550 at API pricing, ~2.7M output and 445M input tokens, heavily cached. Took 8 hours!

Play it here: claude.ai/artifact/BGY1S…
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Ryan Ouyang Verified account @ryanouyang
>me and lil bro, 2067
>bro is 9
>runs 8 whop businesses
>that's below average for his age
>mom worries about him
>we go to the supermarket
>the supermarket is a whop
>every aisle is a connected account
>the cereal aisle has its own support channel
>checkout
>bro taps whop pay with his whop card
>cashier is his customer
>he's her customer
>money goes in a circle and somehow everyone gets richer
>economists still can't explain it
>drive home
>the road is a whop
>members get the fast lane
>pass the hospital
>4.9 stars, 30 day refund policy
>pass the school
>school is a whop course
>bro dropped out to teach it
>get home, turn on the news
>Fed announces interest rates will now be set by whop's economic intelligence
>markets up 4%
>US stops reporting GDP, switches to GMV
>Mars colony launches its first whop
>it sells tours of Earth and lil bro is the top affiliate
>bedtime
>bro asks how it all started
>tell him back in 2026 some company raised $200M
>everyone called it a discord payments website
>he falls asleep
>his businesses don't
>mfw the entire economy is just whop businesses buying from each other
Steven Schwartz 🦅 Verified account @cultured Oct 21
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.
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Ryan Ouyang Verified account @ryanouyang
Auto detailing is a highly underrated business!

Low barrier to entry, tons of creative ways to get customers, and serious cashflow potential with room to scale massively as you staff up.

We're excited to power an army of services businesses like these, DM me if you're a middle/high-schooler looking to get started with the greatest weekend gig ever
Whop Verified account @whop Oct 20
What did you do last summer?
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