How does one get on the guest list for a cultivated salmon dinner party? 

My guests are Justin Kolbeck and Arye Elfenbein, founders of Wildtype Foods. Wildtype is focused on transforming the aquaculture market with their sushi grade cultivated salmon. 

We discuss a dinner party - a very expensive dinner party - they hosted with their salmon at a Portland restaurant, starting the company from humble beginnings in lab space in San Francisco to ultimately raising venture capital.

I also want to give a plug for their blog on Medium, which is unique and chock full of educational and business strategy insights. If you’re looking to get into the industry, I highly recommend you check it out.

Also, you can sign up for updates and get on the waitlist for their salmon at  wildtypefoods.com

Twitter @wildtypefoods

Instagram @wildtypefoods

For entrepreneurs looking to understand the landscape of B2B companies and opportunities in cultivated meat, this is the episode for you. 

Matrix Meats doesn’t actually make any meat, they don’t even make cultivated meat. They’ve developed scaffolding technology which allows cultivated meat to make “Structured products” - think the difference between ground hamburger vs a structured ribeye.

Eric is a serial entrepreneur who does a great job of explaining how cultivated meat is made, the landscape of the current industry, and has an interesting take on where it's going...spoiler alert, this conversation ends with cultivated meat - on Mars.

Matrix Meats: matrixmeats.com

Matrix Meats Twitter: @matrixmeats

Matrix Meats Instagram: @matrix.meats

Netflix show about Cultivated Meat: Explained

Winston Churchhill Speech: “Fifty Years Hence”

“We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium. Synthetic food will, of course, also be used in the future. Nor need the pleasures of the table be banished. That gloomy Utopia of tabloid meals need never be invaded. The new foods will from the outset be practically indistinguishable from the natural products, and any changes will be so gradual as to escape observation.”  - Winston Churchill

Getaway: Glamping aka "Glamourous Camping"

Josh Balk is the VP of Farm Animal Protection at the Humane Society and Co-founded Hampton Creek, which is now Just Inc. Just makes plant-based eggs and mayo, with no chickens required.

Inc. Magazine named Josh as one of its "35 under 35". You can follow him on Twitter @JoshBalk and keep up with the work of The Humane Society at HumaneSociety.org for updates.

Derin Alemli is the Director of Operations and Finance at New Age Meats, having joined the team as the 5th employee.

Prior to New Age Meats, he’s a serial entrepreneur who previously founded Square Roots Kitchen, a technology-enabled fast casual healthy restaurant, and DownBeats, a brand of high fidelity earplugs for concerts.

We discuss how he got into the Industry, New Age Meats positioning In the market, and the technical challenges of building a cultivated meat startup. For anyone who's ever wanted to join an alternative protein / cultivated meat startup, this one is for you.

newagemeats.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-age-meats/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewAgeMeatsCo

Instagram: newagemeatsco

Paul Shapiro is the author of the national bestseller Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, the CEO of The Better Meat Co., a four-time TEDx speaker, and the host of the Business for Good Podcast.

In this episode, we talk about how and why Paul started the Better Meat CO after the success of his book, Clean Meat, the future of the industry, and a little Civil War history.