head of platform API @whop

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2019
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hollow knight in dead cells but its not just an easter egg
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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.
Today, Whop is introducing Economic Intelligence, a decision making system built from business actions on platform. Billions of people should have the ability to build profitable businesses. Economic Intelligence answers "what next?" for businesses at all levels.
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Token input should equal economic output. 9/30
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Some ways people used the Whop CLI last month:
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The Whop API receives approximately 43.5 million requests per day. These are the most popular agents harnessing the Whop API to build businesses.
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Create a business and find your first customer with a single prompt.
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ANY PROBLEM IS NO PROBLEM is now available to watch on Apple TV and Prime Video with more platforms coming soon! From the Oscar-nominated team at Actual Films and Emmy award-winning directors Alyssa Fedele and Zachary Fink, ANY PROBLEM IS NO PROBLEM captures the personal journeys of five young entrepreneurs. In an industry often misrepresented by hype and stereotypes, this intimate portrayal reveals the grit, creativity, and passion required to make it as a startup founder in crypto, no matter the headwinds. Thank you Brandon (@brandontory), Ellie (@elliefarrisi), Adam (@levychain), Chris (@creeefs), and Ryan (@ryanouyang ) for sharing your stories. You continue to inspire us!
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something special in the @MuseumModernArt shop 👀👀👀
A POEM IS #6 from A LIVING POEM by Sasha Stiles, 2025 — from my personal collection :)
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Chicago bound with @chancetherapper x @iyk_app // Star Line out today ⭐️
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"it's 2025, just tap it 🔑"
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Even Ed Sheeran is using @EffectTS_ btw. xitter.cf/edsheeran/status/19437…
If you're heading to the shows this weekend, get your ‘Play’ x Portman Road Commemorative Lanyard. Tap the lanyard with your phone to get instant access to exclusive content, unreleased audio snippets from Play and more. When the album drops, your lanyard will also give you access to the entire album right from your device. Head to the merch stand at Portman Road to get yours 🩷
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If you're heading to the shows this weekend, get your ‘Play’ x Portman Road Commemorative Lanyard. Tap the lanyard with your phone to get instant access to exclusive content, unreleased audio snippets from Play and more. When the album drops, your lanyard will also give you access to the entire album right from your device. Head to the merch stand at Portman Road to get yours 🩷
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Not often do you get to work with one of the biggest artists on the planet. Almost never do they have such a phenomenal taste in colors :) The whole team was absolutely dialed on this one. They say it happens slowly...then all at once. Powered by @iyk_app 🪄
If you're heading to the shows this weekend, get your ‘Play’ x Portman Road Commemorative Lanyard. Tap the lanyard with your phone to get instant access to exclusive content, unreleased audio snippets from Play and more. When the album drops, your lanyard will also give you access to the entire album right from your device. Head to the merch stand at Portman Road to get yours 🩷
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Metal legends @Disturbed partnered w/ @iyk_app to reveal & reward fans during The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour. Over 100,000 fans have signed up– all while collecting "Proofs" onchain and unlocking rewards. s/o @MusicAlly for the feature!
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Two years ago we provided access to an Oscar-nominated, Emmy-award-winning team of filmmakers to capture the personal journeys of five founders (@elliefarrisi, @levychain, @ryanouyang, @creeefs, @brandontory) who went through our crypto startup accelerator in Santa Monica. Come check out the resulting documentary Any Problem is No Problem (@anyprobisnoprob), showing at these upcoming festivals: May 30 at the SF DocFest in San Francisco June 14 at the DC/DOX Film Festival in DC (@dcdoxfest) July 17 at the Christie’s Art + Tech Summit at Radio City Music Hall in NYC Get tickets and learn more about the filmmakers and featured founders here: anyproblemisnoproblem.com/wa…
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Proof: fandom, made verifiable [*]
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POV you just *Tapped your Stay Stable hoodie 👀
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The @Starbase × @SlanderOfficial experience is live →→ Find the hidden stations, collect proofs, and win →→ Powered by IYK
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1. Tap chip on Friday 2. Harvest $$$ 3. Repeat every week ♾ From @BobbyThakkar and @ryanouyang, brought to you by @eco✨
The Department of Agriculture is now live Buy the hat. Tap weekly. Harvest rewards.
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For Immediate Release: @deptofagri 🧢 Powered by Eco's 𝐶𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑦 🌐 Crowd Liquidity is for the people, by the people. It's the final piece of the Eco Stablelayer—an open and crowd-funded solver network that uses idle stablecoin liquidity to fill transfers across @ethereum, @arbitrum, @Optimism, @0xPolygon, and @base, with more coming soon™ Made possible by @hyperlane routes.
The Department of Agriculture is now live Buy the hat. Tap weekly. Harvest rewards.
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