🔥 What's in this episode? Over half of Withings' blood pressure monitor users have hypertension with medication - this is how the French health tech company is transforming chronic condition management through seamless home monitoring. In this episode, Matthieu Menanteau, Product Director at Withings, reveals how they're bringing hospital-grade biomarkers into consumers' daily lives. Discover how they're achieving continuous health insights through an integrated ecosystem of smart scales, sleep analyzers, and AI-powered health assistants.

🎤 About our guest: Matthieu Menanteau is the Product Director at Withings, a French health tech company founded in 2008 with a global ecosystem of connected health devices. He leads development of breakthrough products including the U-scan urine analysis device and advancing existing product lines like smart scales and hybrid watches. Under his leadership, Withings has successfully integrated medical-grade features into consumer devices, creating seamless health monitoring solutions used by millions worldwide.

🎯 What you'll learn 
[02:08] How to bring medical - grade biomarkers from hospital settings into daily home monitoring for prevention and long-term health insights 
[03:15] The OMNIA concept strategy - using conceptual products to demonstrate ecosystem capabilities and trigger B2B partnership discussions [11:31] Target audience evolution from health - conscious consumers to chronic condition management, with over 50% of blood pressure users having hypertension 
[15:01] Why "grassroot change" through consumer empowerment creates bigger healthcare impact than top-down system approaches 
[20:30] Integration strategy differences - maintaining hundreds of open API connections while being selective about direct data partnerships

📌 Links & resources

Withings Official Website

🎁 Special for our listeners: Get 20% off all Withings products (except new releases) with the code WITH-FITTECH-20 at checkout on their website.

Connect with Matthieu Menanteau on LinkedIn

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