An Exact Breakdown of How One CEO Spent His First Two Years of Company-Building | First Round Review

Sam Corcos, co-founder & CEO of Levels, tracked exactly how he spent the two years since founding the company for a rare inside look at being a startup leader.

Sam Corcos is the co-founder and CEO of Levels , a biowearable company that shows you how food affects your health using real-time biological data. Prior to founding Levels, he was the founder of CarDash (YC’17). Editor's Note: This article was published in 2021. Read the update with 5 years' worth of data here . People often wonder how startup CEOs spend their time. Well, I’m a bit obsessive, and I track every 15-minute increment of how I spend my time and I’ve been doing so religiously for years. A little background — as a four-time founder, I've historically been on the technical side of th

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