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