Best Businessentrepreneurstartupleadershipcapitalism Podcasts (2024)

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From Home-Made Smoothies to $200 million in Revenue: Daily Harvest’s Journey 46:15

36m ago46:15

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Imagine thinking it would be a good idea to try to help people eat more fruits and vegetables, so you start making whole foods smoothies for your friends and family. Soon you’re selling them to more people than you personally know. Next thing you know, you’re running an all-vegan frozen meal company with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, …

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Novel Proteins for Pets: Omni is Helping Animal Lovers Feed Their Pets Fewer Animals 50:36

12d ago50:36

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If America’s roughly 180 million meat-loving dogs and cats formed their own nation, they’d reportedly be the fifth biggest meat-consuming country in the world. As pet-keeping has exploded in the developed world, so too has demand for all the chickens, fish, pigs, and cows to feed those pets. There’s even been a trend toward human-grade meat in pet …

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Maisie Ganzler Dishes on When and How Corporate Animal Welfare Policies Work 51:33

1M ago51:33

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Maisie Ganzler has never worked at an animal welfare charity nor an alt-protein company. Yet she’s in the upper echelon of effectiveness when it comes to reducing the suffering of farmed animals. That’s because she’s served as an executive of a national food management company supplying 1,000 schools and corporate dining facilities, Bon Appetit Man…

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Which Came First: The Chicken or the Potato? 36:21

1M ago36:21

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Many listeners of this show will be familiar with precision fermentation, or turning microbes into factories to produce proteins like those proteins that have historically been produced inside of chickens and cows. Think of companies whose founders we’ve had on, like Perfect Day and The Every Company. But, what if instead of using microbes as prote…

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Premature Obituaries? Bruce Friedrich’s Optimism for Cultivated Meat 59:41

2M ago59:41

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Upon reading his obituary, Mark Twain reportedly wrote that “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Whether Twain actually wrote this or not, the reality remains that today the reports of the death of cultivated meat are indeed quite real. Yet Bruce Friedrich, the president of the Good Food Institute, is here to tell you that he believes…

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Defying the Odds: Orbillion Bio Raising Capital for Cultivated Meat in 2024 47:47

2M ago47:47

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If you follow the cultivated meat sector, you know that the last couple years have been tough. Some companies have gone under, others have gone into hibernation, and others have shed staff in cash-conserving layoffs. Major publications have published opinion column obituaries for this industry, yet the work goes on. Part of that work is that of Obi…

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The Past, Present, and Future of Cultivated Meat with UPSIDE Foods’ Uma Valeti 55:05

2M ago55:05

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No cultivated meat company has raised more capital than UPSIDE Foods. In 2022, after having already raised about $200 million in previous rounds, the company raised another $400 million in a Series C round with a company valuation north of the coveted $1 billion unicorn status. No company in the space has garnered more media attention, both positiv…

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Fishing for Progress in Asia: Avant Meats 37:06

3M ago37:06

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Asia is leading the world when it comes to semiconductors, solar panels, wind turbines, and other technologies critical for the future. In a time when several US states are seeking to ban the sale of cultivated meat, Asia seems to be leaning into the technology, and one of the most mature companies in the space there is Avant Meats. Founded in Hong…

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Fishing for High-Margins in Cultivated Seafood: BlueNalu’s Path to Scale 42:49

3M ago42:49

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BlueNalu is one of the better-funded companies when it comes to cultivated meat. Having raised more than $100 million, including about $35 million toward the end of 2023—a notoriously difficult time to fundraise—their founder and CEO Lou Cooperhouse is optimistic about their path to success. But as you’ll hear in this episode, Lou isn’t working to …

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Is the Future of Cultivated Meat in Thailand? Aleph Farms is Betting on It 33:10

3M ago33:10

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When you think about cultivated meat, Thailand isn’t exactly the first country that comes to mind. Sure, you may think about the US, Netherlands, Israel, and Singapore. But the Southeast Asian kingdom is where Israeli cultivated meat juggernaut Aleph Farms recently announced its first commercial factory will be. Having just received Israel’s first …

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Flying Cars or Electric Cars? Isha Datar’s Thoughts on Where Cultivated Meat Tech Stands Today 42:27

3M ago42:27

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When the New York Times recently ran an opinion column declaring the infant fatality of the cultivated meat industry, Isha Datar, CEO of New Harvest, was quoted as saying of the sector, “this is a bubble that is going to pop.” Given that New Harvest is intended to promote and advance the field, what did Isha mean by this? She expounded on that thou…

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Mark Post, A Decade After the First Cultivated Burger 39:42

4M ago39:42

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In 2013, Dr. Mark Post shocked the world when he debuted the world’s first-ever burger grown from animal cells. Weighing in as a quarter-pounder, the burger carried a price tag of a mere $330,000—all of which was funded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin. A decade later, what does Mark think about the movement and the industry he helped birth? When h…

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Are Smaller Cultivators the Answer for Cultivated Meat’s Success? Niya Gupta Thinks So 34:15

4M ago34:15

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Some of the companies in the cultivated meat space are betting that massive stainless steel cultivators—think 100,000L to 250,000L—are the path to commercialization. Niya Gupta, CEO of Fork and Good, is thinking smaller. She argues that there may be a more realistic path using a larger number of smaller tanks, void of the impellers that agitate the…

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Josh Tetrick on the Future of the Cultivated Meat Movement 33:07

4M ago33:07

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If you listened to the last episode, you already know that there’s an updated paperback edition of my book Clean Meat that’s coming out April 9, 2024. I announced in that episode that, aligning with that release, this show will be devoted for a couple months exclusively to interviews with leaders in the cultivated meat space, many of whom are profi…

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Brief thoughts on the alt-meat movement and my role in it 12:02

5M ago12:02

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I’m excited to announce in this short new podcast episode that there’s a new, updated, paperback edition of my book Clean Meat that’s coming out on April 9, 2024. Published by Simon and Schuster’s Gallery Books, the new Clean Meat is now available for preorder everywhere books are sold. Aligning with this new edition release, for the next couple mo…

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Incubating Tomorrow’s Alt-Protein Unicorns: The Kitchen 51:26

5M ago51:26

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If you’ve spent any time in the startup ecosystem, you start realizing pretty quickly that the US isn’t alone in producing a lot of startups, but that there are some very small countries, like Israel and Singapore, that consistently punch above their weight when it comes to new company creation. In fact, Israel is often known as the startup nation,…

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When Nonprofits Start Businesses: Garden for Wildlife and the National Wildlife Federation 1:03:17

6M ago1:03:17

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Most startups are founded by entrepreneurs hopeful that their idea will be the next big thing and pad their bank accounts in the process. Yet sometimes companies are started not by enterprising capitalists, but rather by a far less likely progenitor: nonprofit charities. That’s exactly what happened when the nonprofit National Wildlife Federation d…

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Can Tech Improve Farm Animals’ Lives? Robert Yaman Is Betting On It 59:32

6M ago59:32

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Many times when we talk about technology that can improve animal welfare, we’re talking about innovations that either have displaced or could displace the use of animals. Think for example about cars replacing horse-power, kerosene replacing whale oil, and animal-free meats displacing factory farming of animals. But can technology also be used to m…

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Making Alt-Meat Research More Intelligent: GreenProtein AI & Noa Weiss 48:48

7M ago48:48

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Predictions abound for industries that allegedly will be upended by artificial intelligence, or AI. Will Uber drivers and truck drivers be replaced by AI-powered self-driving vehicles? Will writers and journalists be displaced by ChatGPT and its competitors? While many of our physical tasks have now been replaced by machines, it’s possible that in …

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Building a Better Chew: Chef GW Chew is Working to Create Better Plant-Based Meat 48:25

7M ago48:25

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As a young man, GW Chew saw his family dying early of lifestyle-related diseases, and he thought maybe he could do something about it. With a last name like that—yes, “Chew” is his real last name—maybe GW was destined to become a chef—that’s exactly what he did. Because of his interest in Seventh Day Adventism, GW gradually became Chef Chew by expe…

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Making All Births Intended and Wanted: Cadence OTC and Samantha Miller 39:38

8M ago39:38

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Did you know that nearly half of all pregnancies in America are unintended? And that percentage skyrockets when we’re talking about teen pregnancies, more than three-quarters of which are unintended. While teen pregnancies and teen births are thankfully at an all-time low in the US, we’re still behind countries like the UK and Canada in this regard…

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Power Walking for Cleaner Energy: The Pavegen Story 45:51

8M ago45:51

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Every time you take a step, you’re creating energy. Sadly, that energy isn’t captured and used to power your daily life. But what if it could be? That’s exactly what Pavegen is doing. What started as a guy tinkering in his room to make tiles that generate electricity when depressed is now a multimillion dollar startup with flooring installations in…

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Robots as a Service to Turn the Tides for Our Oceans: The Reefgen Story 32:04

9M ago32:04

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You probably already know why coral reefs are so important—after all, they’re home to a quarter of all marine life. But do you know about seagrass? Seagrass not only provides habitat for aquatic wildlife, but it accounts for 10% of oceanic carbon storage, despite only taking up less than one percent of the seafloor. It also produces oxygen, cleans …

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From Food Bank to Making Bank on Food Influencing: Maxime Sigouin and Fit Vegan Coaching 46:17

9M ago46:17

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Maxime Sigouin was on the verge of homelessness, surviving on free meals from his local food bank. After getting laid off from work and having only about $30 in his bank account, Maxime struggled to figure out how he could afford to survive, let alone try to help his partner as she endured her own mentally and financially taxing fight with cancer. …

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Cementing a Better Future: Leah Ellis and Sublime Systems 46:43

10M ago46:43

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Did you know that nearly 10 percent of all CO2 emissions come from the creation of cement alone? That’s more than from all aviation! We rarely think about cement despite the fact that our society would literally collapse without it. Roads, bridges, buildings, and more all depend on this material that’s so ubiquitous we barely even notice it. In fac…

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From Home-Made Smoothies to $200 million in Revenue: Daily Harvest’s Journey 46:15

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Novel Proteins for Pets: Omni is Helping Animal Lovers Feed Their Pets Fewer Animals 50:36

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Maisie Ganzler Dishes on When and How Corporate Animal Welfare Policies Work 51:33

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Which Came First: The Chicken or the Potato? 36:21

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Premature Obituaries? Bruce Friedrich’s Optimism for Cultivated Meat 59:41

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Defying the Odds: Orbillion Bio Raising Capital for Cultivated Meat in 2024 47:47

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The Past, Present, and Future of Cultivated Meat with UPSIDE Foods’ Uma Valeti 55:05

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Fishing for Progress in Asia: Avant Meats 37:06

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Fishing for High-Margins in Cultivated Seafood: BlueNalu’s Path to Scale 42:49

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Is the Future of Cultivated Meat in Thailand? Aleph Farms is Betting on It 33:10

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Flying Cars or Electric Cars? Isha Datar’s Thoughts on Where Cultivated Meat Tech Stands Today 42:27

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Mark Post, A Decade After the First Cultivated Burger 39:42

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Are Smaller Cultivators the Answer for Cultivated Meat’s Success? Niya Gupta Thinks So 34:15

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Josh Tetrick on the Future of the Cultivated Meat Movement 33:07

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Brief thoughts on the alt-meat movement and my role in it 12:02

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Incubating Tomorrow’s Alt-Protein Unicorns: The Kitchen 51:26

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When Nonprofits Start Businesses: Garden for Wildlife and the National Wildlife Federation 1:03:17

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Can Tech Improve Farm Animals’ Lives? Robert Yaman Is Betting On It 59:32

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Making Alt-Meat Research More Intelligent: GreenProtein AI & Noa Weiss 48:48

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Building a Better Chew: Chef GW Chew is Working to Create Better Plant-Based Meat 48:25

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Making All Births Intended and Wanted: Cadence OTC and Samantha Miller 39:38

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Power Walking for Cleaner Energy: The Pavegen Story 45:51

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Robots as a Service to Turn the Tides for Our Oceans: The Reefgen Story 32:04

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From Food Bank to Making Bank on Food Influencing: Maxime Sigouin and Fit Vegan Coaching 46:17

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Cementing a Better Future: Leah Ellis and Sublime Systems 46:43

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