Gyroscope founder Anand Sharma seems pretty content when we meet up for a walk to The Mill, a hip cafe known for its $4 toast in San Francisco’s NOPA..
Gyroscope founder Anand Sharma seems pretty content when we meet up for a walk to The Mill, a hip cafe known for its $4 toast in San Francisco’s NOPA neighborhood. It’s a rare sunny day in the city and his startup is growing.
His self-tracking platform with a sleek UI has added a genetics and step tracking component and soon blood tracking. He’s also closed on a small sum of angel funding from key investors like Periscope founder Keyvon Beykpour. Even Jack Dorsey has started using Gyroscope, he tells me.
Sharma’s worked for well over two years now on what was once just a little project to help him track how many burritos he ate versus how many times he went on a run. He called it AprilZero then but the idea grew to include friends and soon anyone who wanted to track themselves on a range of different metrics relating to health and wellness and Gyroscope was born.
The plan now includes where you go, what you eat, how many times you go running in a year and how much time you spend staring at the screen in front of you.
He’s not wrong. The movement, also known as lifelogging, conjures up images of folks wearing six different health tracking bands, sensors on their heads and measuring every little detail of their actions in every part of their life…for what sometimes is very unclear.
