Kevin Rose’s fasting app Zero beefs up with new CEO, $1.2M funding

Cancer almost killed the acquisition of video workout startup FitStar and its co-founder Mike Maser, who’s just become the CEO of the No. 1 fasting app, Zero. It was a dream that turned into a nightmare.
Fitbit came right out and said they wanted to buy the True Ventures-funded company. “But even in that meeting, I felt pretty ill,” Maser tells me. At first he thought the weird temperature fluctuations, swollen glands and tiredness were just normal wear and tear from runni