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Whop is currently operating at a $1.2 billion Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) run rate.
Whop processed over $108 million in payments on behalf of its creators last month.
Whop has raised approximately $80 million in total funding to date.
Jack Sharkey predicts that the role of junior engineers at large organizations will become largely obsolete due to AI's impact on productivity.
Jack Sharkey believes Whop can scale to over $10 billion in GMV run rate while maintaining an engineering team of only 10 to 20 people.
Jack Sharkey asserts that the era of tech companies scaling to thousands of engineers is over due to productivity gains from small, talented teams using AI.
Whop migrated its 800-gigabyte primary database from Postgres to PlanetScale (MySQL) with zero downtime.
Whop's Content Rewards product generated over 5 billion views for creators in the last eight weeks.
Whop's investors include Justin Mateen, Justin Kan, Peter Thiel, Insight Partners, A-Star, Kevin Hartz, and Bain Capital.
Whop's platform had approximately 28,000 active earners last month, which was an all-time high.
Whop's internal data shows that users who earn money within their first seven days are three times more likely to be retained than those who do not.
Whop's notification system sends over 40 million notifications per day during peak periods.