The world keeps moving faster, and somehow our health keeps getting left behind. Built Human is for the people who've felt that and want to do something about it.
Each episode takes on food, technology, and the everyday habits that shape how you feel, questioning the advice we've all been handed and working out what holds up.
Your hosts, Andrew Coca and Jon Marchetti, have spent their careers in tech and seen first-hand what that kind of life can do to your health. They call themselves pro-human technologists, set on building technology that genuinely serves the people who use it. Together they're behind Evolved Technologies, Modern.tech, and Animal Base, the marketplace that makes living this way easier.
New episodes every other Wednesday, on YouTube and wherever you listen.
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Ambition Without Burnout: What It Means To Be Human
It's been a while since it was just the two of us. Andrew is recording from a conference in Maui, Jon is at home in Massachusetts, and for the first time Jon turns the show's standing question around: Andrew, what does it mean to be human? That answer sets up 50 minutes on ambition, routine, and building something big without missing your own life along the way. We get into: Why the 30 years it takes to reach a goal is your actual life, a lesson Andrew got from Gary Keller at 19Why routine ma...
9 Sept 2026
Why the Future of Fitness Is Still Human: Ben Katz's Story
In this episode of Built Human, we sit down with Ben Katz, co-founder and CEO of HYBRD, a friend of ours from our college days and Jon's old coworker from back at Wayfair. HYBRD is an AI training app for people chasing strength and endurance at the same time, and Ben is the rare fitness-tech founder who keeps arguing the human part is what matters most. He ran growth at WHOOP, finished a full Ironman while building the company, and started the whole thing off a spreadsheet of his own workouts...
26 Aug 2026
The Startup Growing Whole Forests From a Single Cell: Alex Grant, Foray Bioscience
In this episode of Built Human, we sit down with Alex Grant, COO of Foray Bioscience and a close friend of more than a decade. The three of us met back in college, where Alex went on to captain the swim team and later spent four years inside MIT's startup world helping scientists turn research into companies. Now he does it himself. Foray grows plants from a single cell: whole trees, seeds, and materials, to bring back species we're losing and rebuild supply chains without stripping nature to...
12 Aug 2026
Three Babies in 32 Months and No GLP-1: Kylie Stafford's Story
Losing the weight is one story. Keeping it off, through three pregnancies in under three years, is a different one. Kylie Stafford is still living the second one out loud. In this episode of Built Human, Andrew and Jon talk with digital creator Kylie Stafford, who lost 120 lbs naturally after years of yo-yo dieting. She's a rare kind of guest: someone still moving through it, not teaching from a finished stance. They get into her story, then widen out to the GLP-1 weight-regain problem, the e...
29 Jul 2026
Pregnancy Without The Food Pyramid: Tati Timofeyev's Story
Most of what we eat, we eat without deciding. Tatiana Timofeyev decided a long time ago, and she can tell you exactly why every choice earns its place on the plate. In this episode of Built Human, Andrew and Jon sit down with nutrition coach Tatiana Timofeyev to get into the decision-making framework behind how she eats, what she took from trading notes with the real-food community at Meatstock, and the conversation she rarely gets to have in public: what real nutrition looks like through pre...
18 Jul 2026
Why The People Building AI Are Setting Tech Boundaries
Luke Larson, President of Modern.tech, sits down with Andrew and Jon for a grounded conversation on pro-human technology. Where AI is actually going. What fast adoption means for normal jobs. Why some of the people closest to this work are the ones being most careful about how they use it. Three technologists, talking honestly about the tools they help build and the tools they choose not to use. What we cover: → What "pro-human technology" actually means, and what it looks like in practice → ...
15 Jul 2026
The Health Wake-Up Call Every Founder Needs: Andrew Coca's Story
Andrew Coca is still in the middle of his story. A pro-human technologist building Animal Base, running Modern.tech, and rebuilding his own health, all at once. In this episode Andrew walks Jon through where he came from, what almost cost him, where he is now, and what it actually looks like to do all three of those at the same time. His story is personal, but it points at something structural. From there, Andrew and Jon turn to research showing only about 14% of packaged foods qualify as "he...
13 Jul 2026
The Truth About Modern Health (Nobody Wants to Hear)
Modern food, modern medicine, and the way we work were built for productivity. Your biology paid the bill. The data has been sitting in plain view the whole time. This is the opening episode of Built Human, the show where Andrew Coca works one question in the open: can we build modern life, the technology and the food and the medicine, without it costing us our health? Andrew is a technologist by trade, and he's spent years watching the systems we're told to trust quietly work against the peo...
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