Whop CEO: nearly 100K people earn monthly and AI agents now outnumber human users
LexSokolin · x · 2026-10-28
On the Fintech Blueprint podcast, Lex Sokolin interviews Steven Schwartz, co-founder and CEO of Whop, the Brooklyn-based marketplace valued at $5.1B. Key points: nearly 100,000 people earn money on Whop each month selling software, education, and physical goods; Whop now sees more agent users than human users in its traffic; discussion covers why finding the next customer is harder than building the product, how stablecoins power global payouts, and what AI agents can do to help people launch businesses on the platform.
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