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The creator platform, started by teenage sneaker bot founders, has grown from a $3 million seed in 2021 into a major marketplace.
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Wild story: Whop’s founders met in a Facebook sneaker-reselling group at 13. They built a marketplace for bots that sniped limited-edition sneakers, raised seed funding at a $3M valuation in 2021 (@justinmateen), then expanded into a creator platform. Now worth $5.1B!Read original on X
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