LEVELS – A Whole New Level

Levels' Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Casey Means, sat down with Dr. Philip Ovadia to discuss the key factors that lead to poor metabolic health. As well, they discussed their views on how to solve the metabolic crisis, and Dr. Ovadia's new book, "Stay Off My Operating Table." Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how food a...

Sam Corcos, CEO of Levels, and Josh Clemente, Founder of Levels, sat down to discuss their outlook on a cultural handbook which was created by Miz, Head of Operations at Levels. The handbook dives into the values at Levels, and how to effectively build culture in an asynchronous and remote team. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels.link/wnl Levels helps you see how fo...

There is a major shift happening with traditional, mainstream media and the creator economy.  Levels team members, Mike Haney, Head of Content, Tom Griffin, Head of Partnerships, and Ben Grynol, Head of Growth, sat down and discussed the current overlap and benefits with each of these channels and how Levels can engage better with the audiences they want to reach.   Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultima...

Many times, when people go through post-secondary school, they aren't aware of what career they want to pursue upon graduating. For Braden McCarthy – part of the Operations team at Levels – he went straight from school to startup and took a non-traditional career path. In doing so, Braden has been provided with immense learning opportunities as part of a fast moving team and early-stage tech c...

When building a community, there's one principle which lays the foundation for every community and culture around the world – People Like Us Do Things Like This. It's a sense of tribalism, and a concept that Seth Godin, a global thought leader, brought to the world more than 10 years ago. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: ⁠https://levels.link/wnl Seth Godin is an entrepre...

Oftentimes, in hiring processes, companies have a sense of leverage over prospective candidates. However, with Levels, this isn't the path that we take – we don't want to sell candidates, and we don't want candidates to sell us. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: ⁠https://levels.link/wnl When bringing new team members onboard, the process is transparent. We don't t...

Growth at an early-stage startup involves running series of experiments to learn about a hypothesis. Growth is not based a specific playbook, or a prescriptive plan that people can transfer from one company to the next. Rather, growth experiments are based on an amalgamation of insights from differing areas of a business, and even within the world. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucos...

Inbox zero – it's taken the email world by storm and has been popularized by startups, like Superhuman . But, everyone seems to have their own process for managing emails and prioritizing tasks. Sometimes, this is due to the vertical or industry that a person works within. Other times, it's because entire companies have specific ways of approaching work. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate G...

Marc Champagne started out his career in the corporate world. After a decade of working in roles across sales, analytics, and product management, he took a leap and started a company – KYO – a journalling app, which ended up reaching nearly 87M people. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: https://levels⁠.⁠link/wnl Eventually, the company shut down and Marc was left thinking about wh...

As a company focused on metabolic health and continuous glucose monitoring, it's important for Levels to be on the forefront of technology. For our team, it means that we must understand what's possible – today and in the future. And, there's no one better to talk to about the subject than Josh Clemente – Co-founder of Levels. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: ⁠https:...

In September of 2021, Dr. Robert Lustig participated in a Book Club with the Levels Community, where he discussed his latest book – Metabolical. For the session, Dr. Casey Means, Co-founder & Chief Medical Officer of Levels hosted an interview with Dr. Lustig, which was then followed by a Q&A with the Levels Community. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: ⁠https://levels.lin...

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 sit...

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 G...

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 commun...

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 kid...

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...

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.l...

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 hea...

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...

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...

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 engagemen...

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 t...

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...

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 a...

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...