While alt-meat and plant-based milks have seen an explosion in great products the past few years, plant-based cheese space hasn't seen the same level of new and exciting products.

That might change soon as Ground Foods brings its cauliflower and hemp based cheese products to the masses.

We talk with Veronica Fil, the CEO of Grounded Foods, on the story behind their product that has many in the plant-based food world excited about cheese.

Ahti Heinla brought the world closer together when he helped build Skype as the founding engineer, but now he's moved onto another way to shrink space and time: sidewalk robots.

Mike walks to Ahti about how he got the idea to start a sidewalk robot company and asks how exactly the system works, how truly autonomous they are and how many robots Ahti expects to have on sidewalks a year from now.

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The NextMarket Podcast is back after a long hiatus!

The guest for this episode is Mark Cuban, who joins Mike to discuss:

-The state of the 2016 Presidential campaign

-Why he decided to discuss Donald Trump's wealth

-The efforts by political insiders to recruit Cuban to make a third party run

-Whether he would consider running for president in the future

-Hillary's weaknesses as a candidate

-His work with others to create a possible new political party

-His investment history and record on Shark Tank

-Why he does Shark Tank

-Whether he regrets missing the success stories he doesn't invest in

-The success of the Amazon Echo and invisible interfaces

-The rise of artificial intelligence and the long-term impact on labor markets

-More!

This is a great conversation so check it out and subscribe to the podcast. You can find more podcasts at http://www.technology.fm/nextmarketpodcast/

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Hey Everyone! I am pretty excited to announce a new podcast called Smart Kitchen Show. I know, I need to work on more original names, but I'm pretty proud of this new show. It's got great stories from makers in the foodtech and smart kitchen space and also will be the story of us putting together a little thing called the Smart Kitchen Summit. It's like the Startup podcast, but for smart home and food tech.

If you like the deep dives we did for NextMarket, you'll like this show. Please check it out and subscribe to it on iTunes itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/smart…how/id1037600142 or using RSS feeds.feedburner.com/SmartKitchenShow

Thanks!

Mike