Whoop for Your Poop: Inside Throne Science’s Bet on the Smart Toilet (with Scott Hickle, Co-Founder, Throne Science)
This episode covers something Claims Denied hasn’t touched before: the world’s first passive gut health monitoring device.
Blake sits down with Scott Hickle, co-founder of Throne Science, for a deep dive into the tech behind hands-free gut health, hydration, and urinary health monitoring — and yes, that means talking about poop for an hour. It turns out to be one of the most fascinating conversations on the pod yet, covering real technology, wild behavior-change data, and a long-term vision for cancer screening.
Listen to hear:
- How Throne’s monitor clips onto your toilet, identifies users via Bluetooth, and runs entirely in the background with no sample collection and no manual logging
- How Whoop’s former CTO ended up joining the team after a hospital stay with ulcerative colitis
- What three years of obsessive product development looks like when building a camera for the most intimate room in someone’s home
- What longitudinal gut health data reveals that elimination diets and manual stool logs can’t
- How Oura Ring’s decade-long arc — from 2,400 Kickstarter units to an $11 billion valuation — shapes Throne’s own go-to-market patience
- The roadmap toward detecting microscopic blood in stool, and why that could make Throne a smoke detector for colon cancer, bladder cancer, and more
Follow Scott Hickle on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthickle/
Follow Throne Science on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thronescience/
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