#239: Josh Clemente, Founder of Levels, an Innovative Andreessen Horowitz-Backed Startup with a 45,000 Person Waitlist Helping People Maximize Their Metabolic Health

Nov 19, 2020

Josh Clemente, Founder of Levels, is a mechanical engineer and CrossFit-L2 trainer. At SpaceX, he led a team to develop life support systems that sustained astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on their May 2020 trip to the International Space Station aboard Dragon Endeavor: the first new crew-carrying spacecraft since 1980. Josh has also spent time designing and building Hyperloop technology and leading engineering for a company providing vehicle-based rescue systems for emergency response teams. Josh enjoys the outdoors, functional fitness training, technology, coffee, and restoring motorcycles.

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Some of the Topics Covered by Josh Clemente in this Episode

• What Josh is doing with Levels today and why he started it
• How your metabolism affects how you process food
• The working environment at SpaceX and why Josh got burnt out
• How Josh decided when the timing was right to quit his job to start Levels
• How to build a world-class team
• The product Josh and his team created at Levels
• The educational component of Levels and how that's led to a waitlist of 50,000 people
• The competitive landscape in this space
• What's been helpful for Josh around leading the company
• The importance of transparency
• Fundraising for Levels
• What Josh's schedule looks like today
• Why Josh is doing more endurance training in his own workouts now

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