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Importance score: 3 • Posted: February 26, 2026 at 21:50

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Great to see the next generation of Rails startups continue to crack the unicorn code. Congrats to the whole @whop team 🤘

Steven Schwartz 🦅

Steven Schwartz 🦅

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2026-02-25T15:14:13.000000Z

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We are excited to announce that @tether, the largest stablecoin company in the world, is making a strategic investment of $200M into Whop, valuing us at $1.6B. Our partnership with Tether marks a major step in building the world's largest internet market. Tether is committed to enabling everyone in the world to participate in the new internet economy. The way humans work and create value is changing fast. The world needs both an open internet market giving people a platform to conduct business, as well as a transparent payments network. Tether and Whop together will work to bring a sustainable income to billions of people throughout the world. There is enormous opportunity when you combine Tether’s global scale and wallet technology with Whop’s community of next generation entrepreneurs. My co-founders and I met as teenagers on the internet selling software. We first launched Whop as a way for us to sell our own software to people in Facebook and Discord forums. Prior to Whop, the place we found customers was different from the place we collected payments, different from the place we talked to customers, and there wasn’t a central place to “do business” on the internet. In partnership with Tether, we will be scaling infrastructure in real-time for new business models as they emerge across the globe. The job is just getting started. 🚀

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Post from David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails, highlighting success of a Rails-based startup reaching unicorn status ($1B+ valuation), high engagement and relevance to Rails ecosystem.

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