Anthropic really needs to fix the Claude macOS app.
It’s slow, heavy, clunky, and constantly throws errors. Even the “Fable is not available right now” message can’t be dismissed properly, despite them saying they’re working on it.
I don't understand how they can't build a great app with all the technology they have in their hands.
@oasishealthapp@VanceE How come it’s their job to send you lab results? Do they need to send it to every “app” developer just so you don’t publish a lie about their product? If you are going to publish a product review, it’s your duty to do your own research!
@fortelabs Definitely bear notes. You can also create a shortcut where everyday your new notes in bear gets exported as md. Files to a folder so you always have your notes ready in markdown format in a folder you choose.
The investor list tells you exactly what WHOOP is now.
$10.1 billion for a company that gives away a screenless rubber band. The device has no screen. No buttons. No display. The hardware is free with every subscription. WHOOP charges $199 to $359 per year for the right to look at your own biometric data in an app.
2.5 million members. $1.1 billion bookings run rate. 103% year-over-year growth. Cash flow positive. Those are SaaS metrics from a company that started as a wristband for CrossFit athletes.
Now look at who wrote checks. Qatar Investment Authority. Mubadala. Abbott. Mayo Clinic. Sovereign wealth funds and two of the largest healthcare institutions on Earth. QIA manages over $500 billion. Mubadala manages $300 billion+. These are the same funds buying stakes in global hospital networks, pharmaceutical pipelines, and biotech platforms. They did not invest $575 million because they think recovery scores are cool.
WHOOP sits on 24 billion hours of continuous physiological data. Heart rate variability, respiratory rate, skin temperature, SpO2, sleep architecture, blood pressure, ECG, and now blood biomarkers through Advanced Labs. From 2.5 million people wearing the device 24/7, generating data every single second.
Abbott makes glucose monitors, diagnostics equipment, and cardiac devices used in hospitals worldwide. Mayo Clinic runs one of the largest clinical research operations in medicine. When both of them invest in the same wearable company in the same round, they're buying a distribution channel for continuous patient monitoring outside the clinic.
The athlete investors are the packaging. Ronaldo, LeBron, Rory McIlroy, Virgil van Dijk. Their names make the fundraise go viral. Their actual function is keeping WHOOP positioned as a performance brand while the cap table quietly fills with healthcare infrastructure capital.
Previous valuation: $3.6 billion in 2021. Today: $10.1 billion. A 2.8x jump in five years, with the entire delta coming after WHOOP got FDA clearance for ECG and blood pressure monitoring. The regulatory moat is the valuation inflection.
Will Ahmed built a fitness tracker. The cap table says he's building the consumer front-end for the next generation of preventive medicine. The $10.1 billion bet is that the hospital of the future starts on your wrist.
What started as a wearable to help you sleep, train, and recover is now transforming how people think about and understand their health.
Today marks a major milestone:
$575M raised at a $10.1B valuation
2.5M+ members worldwide
24B+ hours of physiological data
We've been building toward a more continuous, personalized approach to health, using real-time data and AI to help people make better decisions every day. Decisions that change how millions of people feel and how they live.
Today means we are one step closer to realizing our vision:
Making WHOOP available to more people in more places around the world.
Investing deeper in features that help prevent disease before it begins.
Developing visionary features that put more information in your hands.
What doesn’t change is our focus: building the best platform for your health.
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