Cory Levy

entrepreneur and early stage investor | founder of Z Fellows @zfellows

[Cory Levy @cory]

"everything around that you call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you" - Steve Jobs

new z fellows cohort starting soon. interviewing now for it.

https://t.co/QoKEaGyKDL

[Cory Levy @cory]

!!

[marc @marcbaghadjian]

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!! @aliansarinik

[marc @marcbaghadjian]

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!! @aliansarinik

[Justin Mateen @justinmateen]

Thank you @cultured

Not many people know this but sometimes I miss being a founder. I basically work at the companies I invest in when they need me. At crucial times I’ll even write emails for my founders.

I naturally end up spending more time on companies that excite me and Whop has been exciting me a lot lately.

They just crossed $400M ARR. I went through their top 500 customers one by one and realized that despite what many people think, these are real businesses with sustainable and growing revenues.

I pattern match for a living. I don’t even try to, it’s just how my brain works. One thing I’ve noticed is that the best founders might be a little surprised by their success, but they’re never fazed by it. They just keep raising the bar.

For years @cory and I have been saying @whop could be a $30B company.

But lately I’ve started thinking Whop has a serious shot at $100B . A couple months ago @czoob3 finally said it out loud: “I would double or nothing my stake that Whop will be a $100B company.”

That’s the kind of ambition that breeds greatness.

I don’t particularly enjoy sitting on boards, but for greatness you make exceptions.

[Cory Levy @cory]

❤️❤️

[Cameron @czoob3]

YC rejected Whop in fall 2021 batch, but there was a better program that accepted Whop and that was Z Fellows.

Cory was the first check in Whop, has been by our side through it all, and joined our board when it was formed.

ZF >

[brendan @shankshaft_]

A few months ago, I heard Cameron speak at a Z Fellows event in the Whop office about the vision for Whop.

I was hooked. Honored to now be building alongside the team.

[Cory Levy @cory]

@GronkWiz 💪🚀

[Grace @g_kasten]

Congratulations Whop

This is still only the beginning

I love this company and this team so much

[Cory Levy @cory]

@czoob3 ❤️❤️

[Cameron @czoob3]

YC rejected Whop in fall 2021 batch, but there was a better program that accepted Whop and that was Z Fellows.

Cory was the first check in Whop, has been by our side through it all, and joined our board when it was formed.

ZF >

[doug leone @dougleone]

I waited, learned and made my first investment since returning as an active investor at Sequoia.

Whop is a special company, and I’m excited to help them to create jobs and stimulate the economy.

[Cory Levy @cory]

looking through my camera roll and realized I have hundreds of photos from the last 5 years with the Whop crew.

different offices, apartments turned offices, and random cities where makeshift offices were found.

funny thing is y'alls Z Fellows acceptance email went to spam. thankfully y’all happened to checked spam 😂. now some Z Fellows founders are building businesses on Whop.

thinking back to our first meeting and everything it took to get here… I don’t think I tell you guys enough how proud I am of you.

best part of all of this is you guys became some of my closest friends.

congrats to the whole team on the raise. love you guys!

[Steven Schwartz 🦅 @cultured]

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.

[Cameron @czoob3]

Our mission is to deliver everyone a sustainable income.

We will not stop until there are billions of people earning on Whop.

Shoutout to everyone who has made this possible, from the earliest sneaker botters to the tens of thousands of entrepreneurs building on Whop today 🫡

[Steven Schwartz 🦅 @cultured]

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.

[Cory Levy @cory]

and London / Imperial!

[Cory Levy @cory]

spent the last week in Milan, Munich, Windsor, and Oxford meeting people in college and high school (Eton)

“talent is everywhere, opportunity isn’t” felt real. the internet opens doors but being surrounded by people who think your crazy idea is worth trying matters more than we admit

Silicon Valley makes taking a risk feel normal. I met so many young people in Europe creating that same energy. but we need more of it and more people willing to back them before it’s obvious. I want to help.

excited to visit more of Europe soon. HMU if ur there.

[Greptile @greptile]

Greptile has raised a $50M Series B led by Menlo Ventures. The round values the company at $750M.

Greptile reviews and tests more than 1% of all PRs opened on GitHub every day. Thousands of engineering teams including Nvidia, Coinbase, Decagon, and Vanta use Greptile as their independent and central validation layer.

Fewer than 50 people, we are a small, talent-dense team of engineers and researchers in a quiet corner of San Francisco. If you’re interested in joining us, we’d love to hear from you.

[Cory Levy @cory]

@carloagostinel2 harrow next with you

[Cory Levy @cory]

great to visit, speak, and meet the students at Eton!

🇬🇧🇬🇧

[Cory Levy @cory]

@lukedwagner12 @neomatterai @MainwaringLuke @ycombinator congrats!

[Eric Glyman @eglyman]

Today, Ramp raised $1.85B at a $60B valuation.

Seven years ago, Karim and I wrote our mission on a Post-it: “Save companies time and money.”

Our mission hasn't changed. It’s just gotten bigger.