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Debbie Chen

Debbie Chen

Founder and CEO of Hydrostasis, maker of the GECA Watch hydration-monitoring wearable; biomedical engineer (PhD, Tufts) and Muay Thai practitioner.

Sep 22, 2026

31:02
What was that like, seeing actual customer data versus what has been told about what we know from people's history and specifically around this.
31:14
Yeah, I think it's like a dual-edged sword because people are going to be doing what they do, you know.
31:25
So it's great because it's real world data.
31:28
People are going to do whatever they do.
31:30
So we have weird stuff like, man, the sensor failed.
31:33
I don't know what happened.
31:35
And, you know, and we get it back and turns out they were doing some crazy stuff with it or that damaged it or whatever, right? And then on the data side, it just makes it more messy, to be honest.

9 MINS LATER

40:41
Um, from your perspective of watching and viewing it now for close to eight plus years one are we in a bubble around health data uh or we actually break broke through the threshold where it's actually more mainstream and people have access and are doing things that are right so what i'm just kind of curious in your take on that and then we'll talk like tech adoption and where we need to go still
12:34
So if there's someone out there listening to this and they want to be an entrepreneur, they want to start their own thing, but maybe they're the first person doing that in their circle and they don't know somebody, what advice would you give them? How do they take that first step?
12:48
I would say don't be afraid of talking about your ideas.
12:52
I think a lot of people are like, oh, someone's going to steal my idea.
12:54
No one's going to steal your idea.
12:56
And if they really like your idea, they have 10,000 other ideas.
12:59
Everybody has their own thing that they're working on, and they're not going to steal your idea.
13:03
But the thing is about talking to people is you're going to get your idea with more clarity.

6 MINS LATER

19:08
That's amazing.

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