Mental models allow us to take shortcuts when makings decisions. The heuristics that create the foundation of mental models can be stacked on top of each other to form new mental models, when solving problems. Some mental models are quick and easy – others are more complex. For Sam Corcos, co-founder and CEO of Levels, it's no surprise that he has many mental models – for pretty much every situation in life and business. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link...
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 29
When most companies start, they are single-threaded companies. More specifically, companies start with one product or revenue stream and evolve. Amazon is a great example of a company that has built an ecosystem. The company started as an e-commerce site for selling books, and now has a number of inter-related businesses that make up the entire Amazon ecosystem. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Netflix is an example of a company that started as a sing...
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 28
Communication and communication platforms – specifically in a work setting – can lead to increased productivity, or can unfold as a distraction mechanism for urgency. Unfortunately, for most companies, the latter is often true. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl In a world of constant connection and notifications, the expectation around professional communication is often positioned as "the faster, the better". However, is it the platforms or t...
Sep 30, 2021•49 min•Ep. 27
For parents, feeding kids a balanced diet can feel like an uphill battle. People are surrounded by fast, convenient and highly processed food items, which can make the idea of 'meal time' easier to get through. But, these short-term choices can have long term health implications – especially for children. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl When kids are provided with the right foundation for the way to think about food and the choices in front of...
Sep 27, 2021•50 min•Ep. 26
Dr. Sara Gottfried – a pioneer in health, research, and education – has seen more than 25,000 patients over the past two decades. She's a physician scientist, who graduated from Harvard Medical School and MIT, and completed her Residency at the University of California, San Francisco. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Dr. Gottfried is the Director of Precision Medicine at The Marcus Institute of Integrative Health, at Thomas Jefferson University, wh...
Sep 23, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 25
Mike Barwis has spent more than 30 years training professional athletes to be their best. But, it's not just physical performance that Mike focuses on during training sessions. Rather, he believes that mindset is where it all starts, and many of Mike's lessons about performance can be extrapolated from sports to startups. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to a...
Sep 20, 2021•57 min•Ep. 24
When Mike DiDonato was 19 years old, his father passed away suddenly. This experience changed the way that Mike looked at the world. When faced with adversity, Mike focused on mindset to take his wellbeing into his hands. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucos...
Sep 13, 2021•41 min•Ep. 23
A startup needs to create and establish a company culture in the beginning in order for the team to thrive and grow as the company scales. Understandably, it may seem counterintuitive to focus on intangible things like culture in the early days of a startup, but it’s key. Netflix Co-Founder Marc Randolph is a standout leader to talk to about this; he helped build Netflix’s culture 20 years ago. To this day, CEOs still reference Marc’s Netflix culture playbook. Listen as Sam Corcos and Marc Rando...
Sep 06, 2021•50 min•Ep. 22
As a society, we're surrounded by many foods that have added sugar and are highly processed. However, when people see data that shows them the implications of consuming these items, they often change their outlook and their willingness to consume these items. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl As an experiment, we turned to the Levels community and ran an experiment – we were curious to see if exercise would help to mitigate a glucose spike caused by...
Aug 30, 2021•49 min•Ep. 21
Dorothy Kilroy, an Advisor to Levels, grew up in a small town in Ireland. As such, Dorothy was exposed to a tightly knit group of friends and acquaintances, which influenced her outlook on community greatly. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Now, Dorothy oversees the community at Airbnb, and she has adopted many of these insights about community engagement and applied them at scale. Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with ...
Aug 23, 2021•43 min•Ep. 20
Tom Griffin, Head of Partnerships, is no stranger to running a process. Early in his career, he worked with Andrew Yang at Venture for America. Eventually, he joined Halo Neuroscience, where he focused on Partnerships. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl At Halo, one of the core strategies for creating awareness about their technology was to run a podcast tour – an initiative where the Halo team appeared on a significant number of podcasts in short period...
Aug 16, 2021•43 min•Ep. 19
Mike Haney, Head of Content, and Casey Means, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Levels, have been driving the Content movement at Levels. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Their individual paths and experience with content have formed a strong lens for execution. Haney, (as he’s referred to internally), joined Levels with decades of experience as an Editorial Director. Casey joined Levels as a formally trained Medical Doctor. Together, they produc...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 18
Mike Haney, Head of Content, and Casey Means, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Levels, have been driving the Content movement at Levels. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Their individual paths and experience with content have formed a strong lens for execution. Haney, (as he’s referred to internally), joined Levels with decades of experience as an Editorial Director. Casey joined Levels as a formally trained Medical Doctor. Together, they produ...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 17
Josh Mohrer – JM as he’s known within the Levels team – is a proud New Yorker. Startups have always been a part of his life and, in 2011, he joined one of the fastest growing startups of the past decade – Uber. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl While at Uber, JM was exposed to scale and speed, where he helped to grow Uber New York from a quaint market to one of the largest markets in the world for Uber. This endeavour gave him exceptional experience in ...
Jul 26, 2021•43 min•Ep. 16
David Flinner – Head of Product and one of the co-founders of Levels – spent many years working in Product at Google, where he was exposed to a number of large and challenging problems. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl While at Google, he noticed that his energy levels were lower than he thought they should be, but he wasn’t sure if it was a byproduct of diet, sleep, stress or exercise. Eventually, he started researching metabolic health and, around th...
Jul 19, 2021•42 min•Ep. 15
Josh Clemente, Founder of Levels, and Sam Corcos, CEO and one of the co-founders of Levels, were acquaintances for a number of years before they co-founded the company. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl After they began working together, they had to evolve their relationship from friends to co-founders. Although this might seem like a seamless transition to make, it took work. As Levels has grown, so too has their friendship and work relationship. Level...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 14
The evolution of culture at startups can have different paths. For in-person teams, culture may be developed through the daily, in-person interactions and water cooler conversations that take place. For remote teams, culture develops in a different way. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Regardless of a company’s structure, culture is built upon the foundation of shared values, and the way that those values are lived and communicated across an entire tea...
Jul 05, 2021•57 min•Ep. 13
As we’ve been building Levels, two factors that we’ve been focused on are Member feedback and Member experience. Internally, we have a goal of building a NPS Unicorn – a company with a NPS score of 90 and above. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl In this episode, Mike Haney, Head of Content, and Ben Grynol, Head of Growth, sat down to dig into what that means to build an NPS Unicorn and how we’ll work towards this goal as a team. Levels helps you see how ...
Jun 28, 2021•41 min•Ep. 12
Andrew Conner, co-founder and Head of Engineering at Levels, spends a lot of time thinking about how the product will scale. In order to scale effectively, the infrastructure for the product will need to scale up quickly. By the time Levels launches to the public, the platform will be processing more than one billion data points per month. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools n...
Jun 21, 2021•42 min•Ep. 11
Casey Means, Chief Medical Officer and one of the co-founders of Levels, changed her outlook on food at a young age. When she was 14 years old, she realized that food, and the philosophy behind it, was a deep and intimate relationship that would evolve continuously into her adult years. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Her curiosity led her down the path of studying and understanding the biochemistry of the food that she was consuming. Eventually, that...
Jun 14, 2021•56 min•Ep. 10
In 2013, Sam Corcos, CEO and one of the co-founders of Levels, had a revelation when it came to media consumption. He realized that consuming information which was pushed upon him, specifically the news, wasn't beneficial to the way he used his time or the way he learned about the world. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wn As a result, Sam ended up changing the way that he not only consumed information, but also the way he navigated the world because o...
Jun 07, 2021•56 min•Ep. 9
In early 2020, Sam and Josh started having conversations with Investors about doing a Seed round. As initial conversations picked up, things changed drastically in the world. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Between March and July of 2020, the team focused on execution. As they generated traction, they sparked interest from many Investors, which eventually led them to raise a $12M Seed round in the fall. Levels helps you see how food affects your healt...
May 31, 2021•36 min•Ep. 8
When the team started growing at Levels, Josh felt an innate sense of responsibility. But, it wasn’t bringing on new team members that was top of mind. Rather, he felt pressure to make Levels a success every time a new co-founder joined the team. People were leaving prominent roles and opportunities to come and build a company with a big vision, in highly regulated space. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health...
May 24, 2021•39 min•Ep. 7
In the fall of 2019, the Levels team continued building the infrastructure needed to move the company into Beta. One of the requirements of being able to distribute CGMs to people was having a network of physicians and a distribution network of cloud-based pharmacies. With enough grit, the team was finally able to get a meeting with Truepill, and this ended up being a catalyst for getting the first orders shipped. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels...
May 17, 2021•26 min•Ep. 6
In the summer of 2019, things started moving forward for Josh & Sam, as the two of them got traction with Levels. The company was no longer called Frontier Biometric, and both investors and friends alike were keeping an eye on what they were working on. It didn't take long before things started moving with velocity. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve...
May 10, 2021•33 min•Ep. 5
In April of 2019, Josh turned 30 and was about to move on from Frontier Biometric. At that point, he had been working on the project for more than a year and had exhausted all channels to get traction. Shortly after his birthday, he got a call from Sam Corcos and they started catching up – the conversation ended up being a catalyst in moving the company forward. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empoweri...
May 03, 2021•43 min•Ep. 4
By mid-2018, Josh was all in on Maple Biometrics. But, he started to feel disenfranchised by the rejection he faced in bringing Continuous Glucose Monitoring to the mass market. It wasn't until there was a serendipitous encounter on a road trip from Los Angeles to Philadelphia that ended up changing the course of the company. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to a...
Apr 26, 2021•16 min•Ep. 3
After graduating from college, Josh Clemente, Founder of Levels, found himself selling used cars while he held out for his dream job – an opportunity to work at Tesla. Although Tesla didn't work out, someone suggested that Josh apply to SpaceX and this changed the course of his career. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspa...
Apr 13, 2021•49 min•Ep. 2
Welcome to Levels. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations w...
Apr 13, 2021•3 min•Ep. 1
