22. Josh Clemente | Levels (metabolic fitness)

The Founder

Josh Clemente is the Co-Founder of Levels.
Josh is a rocket scientist and worked at SpaceX for 6 years, managing the team that designed the life support systems in their space shuttles. Overtime, he started to notice extreme levels of fatigue and experienced volatile spikes and crashes of energy throughout his day. For someone that worked out consistently and followed the guidelines for what he believed to be healthy practices, things didn’t seem to add up. After experimenting with glucose monitoring, he realized that he was pre-diabetic, borderlining on fully-blown diabetic, and that the foods he was eating were having a significant impact on his performance. It was this discovery and struggle to derive actionable insights from his glucose monitoring that led him to start Levels.
Today at Levels, Josh and his team are revolutionizing the way people think about their metabolic health. And why is metabolic health so important? Before Levels, an average person had no way of understanding how efficiently or inefficiently their body was producing energy. Levels enables you to access and understand this information in real-time, so you can start making better diet and lifestyle choices to avoid those energy peaks and valleys.
When you join their program, you’ll receive two, 14-day continuous glucose monitors that stay on your arm and measure the glucose in your blood. Using the Levels app, you’re able to seamlessly monitor how different foods as well as things like sleep, stress and exercise are impacting your glucose levels and then proactively make adjustments. In the future, Levels will be able to predict and recommend what you should do to optimize your energy, acting almost as a virtual health coach with personalized recommendations based on your specific choices.
Tune in to hear Josh's story!
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EPISODE TOPICS:

• (3:12) Levels snapshot today
• (4:10) Metabolic health explanation
• (6:28) Personalization
• (8:45) CGM history
• (13:12) Background and founding story
• (17:52) Product evolution
• (26:48) Customer adoption
• (30:23) Marketing/growth tactics
• (33:10) Competitive landscape
• (37:30) Manifesting the future vision
• (40:52) Hiring
• (44:10) Founding team strategy
• (47:56) Advice to younger self
• (51:02) Josh's wellness stack
• (1:03:43) Josh's startup manifesto
• (1:07:52) Josh's founder nomination

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