So I would get bran flakes and eat it by not only the bowl full, but also dump it in smoothies and stuff.
And it is probably like the single most reactive substance I was putting into my body.
It was always way above the diabetes threshold.
It was like, it was crazy.
Welcome to this special episode of Acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks behind them.
I'm Ben Gilbert and I'm the co founder and managing director of Seattle based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund PSL Ventures.
And I'm David Rosenthal and I am an angel investor based in San Francisco.
And we are your hosts.
Today we have a special episode that dives deep on the dynamic digital health ecosystem, especially with the lens on the complete upending of the landscape happening with companies going direct to the consumer.
Today's episode primarily centers around Levels, a new company that's on a mission to make all of us aware of our metabolic health AKA track your blood glucose with a real time wearable sensor known as a continuous glucose monitor or cgm.
Wearing mine right now.
Me too.
We were introduced to the company by two of our LPs and members of the acquired community shout out to Michael Mizrahi and Ben Greenall.
One of our favorite things about the incredible community that has developed in Slack and on our LP calls is that we get to learn about some of the most interesting companies in our ecosystem.
Today we are joined on this episode by the founder of levels, Josh Clemente.
Josh has a fascinating background even before starting Levels from his days as an early engineer at SpaceX where he worked on Dragon Capsule as the lead life support systems engineer and then afterwards at another elon company, Hyperloop one.
If you are wondering how the business models behind these new direct to consumer healthcare companies work, why the time is now for this revolution?
Or perhaps you just want to be one step closer to being a cyborg.
This episode is for you.
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