head of platform API @whop
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2019
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>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
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.
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
You can now ask your agent why your revenue is down
Economic Intelligence gives it the business context and tools to investigate
.@derekedws and @Collab_Currency embody the spirit of ride-or-die.
Never ever doubted, not even for a second, that they were working for our best interests.
gmoney on why one sharp investor beats a pile of angels — shoutout @Collab_Currency and @derekedws
“there is no replacement for a good investor on the cap table”
“I'd rather have a large investor that understands the game”
“big shout out to Collab Currency and Derek Edwards… they led the 9DCC round”
You can now build an ecommerce store end-to-end with the Whop CLI.
Start from scratch and iterate with your agent, or customize a Whop Blueprint.
Economic Intelligence works anywhere Whop is available: the Whop CLI, MCP, and official SDKs.
Ask your agent to turn it on, and it gains the power to run your business end-to-end with the full knowledge of Whop.
Ryan Ouyang retweeted
Intelligence is abundant, but economic intelligence is not
Nations, frontier labs themselves, enterprises, and a small cohort of power users drive most of the demand for AI infrastructure today. The number of US households paying for an AI subscription is up 155% from 2025 to 2026, but this number is still only about 3% of all US households.
There is so much potential value still yet to be seen from people using AI in their day to day lives.
The recent trend in always-on personal intelligence optimizes for productivity, reducing spend, and participating in commerce.
Not making money.
There is not a clear outlet for people to use these agents to make money, rather than saving it. The vast majority of people will need to find a way to realize value from this rapidly evolving technology, and we believe that creating businesses is one of the major ways they will do so.
Billions of people need a way to convert AI tokens into income.
Today, Whop is introducing Economic Intelligence, a decision making system built from business actions spanning five years and over $7B of annual network volume on Whop. As models continue to become commoditized, it becomes clear that the context layer is where true value lies.
Patterns between isometric businesses become have become more easily readable, allowing us to recommend the most optimal action a business should take to reach their next dollar.
In our beta sample of 15k businesses, sales grew 31.8% for businesses with Economic Intelligence turned on compared to 3.9% for those without.
Economic Intelligence is the most exciting project I've worked on at Whop.
When I was starting my dropshipping biz, there were so many things I didn't know. How to structure a funnel. How to explain my offer. What I should actually change after staring at my ad metrics for an hour.
Getting those things right could have 10x'd the trajectory of my business.
We've watched businesses grow across dozens of niches and business models. This is our attempt to put those learnings in everyone's hands.
As a Verified Partner, you can now tell your agent to adjust fees for your referred businesses.
Use this to close a sale, incentivize scaling, and provide growth guidance to your partner portfolio.
You can now run a full neobank on Whop in less time than it takes to get your bank to approve a wire.
No waitlist or paywall, available now in our public API.
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The Platform API team's job is to make every part of running a business programmable.
Today the risk team made fraud rules programmable!
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