So I would get brand flakes and eat it by not only the bowlful but also like dump it in smoothies and stuff and it is probably like the single most reactive substance I was putting in my body it was always way above the diabetes threshold it was like it was crazy.

Welcome to this special episode of acquired the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks behind them.

I'm Ben Gilbert and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle based Pioneer Square Labs in our venture fund PSL Ventures.

And I'm David Rosenthal and I am an angel investor based in San Francisco.

And we are your hosts.

Today we have a special episode that dives deep on the dynamic digital health ecosystem, especially with the lens on the complete upending of the landscape happening with companies going direct to the consumer.

Today's episode primarily centers around levels a new company that's on a mission to make all of us aware of our metabolic health aka track your blood glucose with a real time wearable sensor known as a continuous glucose monitor or CGM where mine right now.

Me too.

We were introduced to the company by two of our LPs and members of the acquired community shout out to Michael Mizrahi and Ben grind all one of our favorite things about the incredible community that has developed in slack and on our LP calls is that we get to learn about some of the most interesting companies in our ecosystem today.

We are joined on this episode by the founder of levels Josh Clemente.

Josh has a fascinating background even before starting levels from his days as an early engineer at SpaceX where he worked on dragon capsule as the lead life support systems engineer.

And then afterwards at another Elon company hyperloop one if you are wondering how the business models behind these new direct consumer health care companies work.

Why the time is now for this revolution or perhaps you just want to be one step closer to being a cyborg this episode is for you.

This is a great time to tell you about one of our very favorite companies Crusoe.

So Crusoe as listeners know by now is a clean compute cloud provider specifically built for AI workloads in video is one of their major partners and literally Crusoe's data centers are nothing but racks and racks of a 100s and each 100s.

And because Crusoe's cloud is purpose built for AI and run on wasted stranded or clean energy.

They can provide significantly better performance per dollar than traditional cloud providers.

Yes, we talked about that on our ACQ to episode with Crusoe CEO chase lock Miller the other element that makes Crusoe special is the environmental angle.

Crusoe of course locates their data centers at stranded energy sites so think oil flares wind farms that can't use all the energy they generate et cetera.

And uses that power that would otherwise be wasted to run your AI workloads instead.

Yep, obviously it's a huge benefit for the environment and for customers on costs since Crusoe doesn't rely on the energy grid.

Energy is the second largest cost of running AI after of course the price you pay Nvidia for the chips and these lower energy costs get passed on to customers.

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