Hydration Revolution: How Stefan van der Fluit is Disrupting Health Tech

From being bullied as a kid to becoming a national triathlon champion to building the world's first reusable sweat sensor… Stefan van der Fluit’s journey proves that our greatest challenges often become our greatest innovations.

Stefan is a 4x founder; ex-Meta; ex-PolyAI; Entrepreneur First 2020; University of Cambridge 2017 graduate; and is racing bikes for Wolfox CAMS LeCol. He’s now building FLOWBIO → Deleting dehydration from the human experience. We are building the hydration AI installed in every health& fitness wearable. Bringing hydration metrics like water and electrolyte losses to Oura, WHOOP, Apple Watch, Samsung Wear, FitBit without any hardware redesign.

Jon chats with Stefan about:

• conscious capitalism: doing business from good and long-term thinking

• building FLOWBIO: world's first reusable sweat sensor technology

• his Triathlon journey: connecting with father and overcoming childhood bullying

• hydration science: balance of water to sodium, not just intake

• angel investor network: athletic brewing, Aura connections through referrals 

• startup challenges: three near-death experiences, sold out for quarters

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