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Noah Kagan Presents

A New Way to Run Companies (w/ Sam Corcos of LevelsHealth)

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Sam Corcos, co-founder and CEO of Levels, a health tech company that lets you track your blood glucose level in real-time using a device that you can stick on your arm and an app. Sam says they are on a mission to solve the metabolic health crisis.

Prior to that, Sam was already a three-time founder either as the CTO or Engineering Lead. This is his first time being a CEO and he has tons of interesting lessons to share.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Most companies who try remote, they take all of their old practices of how to do things,

0:05.6

and then they just say like every meeting we were doing, now just do it on Zoom.

0:10.1

And it's actually worse.

0:12.2

Like Zoom is so crushing in a way that meeting in person isn't.

0:17.0

What is up, you beautiful bastards, it is your boy pickleball,

0:21.0

aka Rabbi Cantlors, aka Noah Kagan. In today's episode, I talk to... It is your boy pickleball aka

0:22.5

no a kagan in today's episode. I talked to Sam Corcoes. He is the co-founder of

0:27.3

Levels Health. That's Levels Health.com. Now Levels Health is a glucose

0:31.9

monitor so you stick it in your arm which I did and then you could see how when you eat things how it actually affects your blood sugar levels and then you can make changes based on that.

0:40.7

It was pretty interesting data that I tried it. As well, Sam runs this

0:43.5

company a little bit differently. If you ever want to learn about how to run a remote

0:46.7

team and pushing your comfort zone, I think I'd enjoy this episode. Here's three

0:50.1

gigantic things you're going to take away. Number one, what Sam learned about discomfort by laying down

0:53.9

in the streets in public?

0:55.1

Please don't do that while you listen to this podcast.

0:56.6

Number two, how to avoid co-founder resentment?

0:58.9

And number three, how to actually build company culture?

1:00.8

Enjoyed those three things, plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.

1:03.4

Before we dive in the show go check out AppSuma.com that's it if you're

1:07.6

interested in buying or selling software to start a grow your online business AppSumo.com.

1:12.8

Also a special pre-show shout out to listener Danny Laird from caffeine and kilos.

1:16.8

I love this dude.

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