The Spoon Podcast

For most, founding one of the original better-for-you brands in Honest Tea would be enough of a life achievement. For Seth Goldman, it meant he was just getting started. Nowadays as the Chairman of Beyond Meat and founder of plant-based snack brand Eat the Change and plant-based fast food chain PLNT Burger, Seth Goldman thinks a lot about the future of food. We talk about how alt-protein and the future food space has evolved in recent years, the crazy valuations for startups, and where he thinks the market for these new alternatives to animal agriculture are going. via Knit

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Eat Just founder and CEO Josh Tetrick is inarguably one of the leading pioneers in the future of food. In this interview, The Spoon's Jenn Marston talks with Josh about the company's recent milestones and where he sees alt-protein going in the future. via Knit

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Another Clubhouse recorded edition of the Spoon editor podcast where we highlight the stories of the week. This week's guest is Veronica Fil, the CEO of Grounded Foods. Stories discussed this week: -Ghost Kitchens Newest Location? Master Planned Communities -Upcycled Food Startups Doing More Partnerships with Food Brands -Takeoff Technologies Expands is Automated Fulfillment Network -MeliBio Gets Funding for Bee Without the Honey Join our Clubhouse rooms for the live recorded edition by following our club: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/foodtechlive via Knit

The Spoon team welcomed food tech investor Brian Frank to our live Clubhouse room where we talked about some stories from the last week. The stories we talked about include: -Cell-Cultured Fish Startup Bluu Biosciences Raises €7 million -The Rise of 'Premium' Cultured Meat Startups -Sony Invests in Analytical Flavor Systems and our Robot Chef Future -NASA Harvest Partners with CropX to Combine Soil Monitoring and Satellite Data -Ex-WeWorkers Launching Santa, A Hybrid 'Retail Experience' Startup Focused on 'Small US Cities' As always, you can find more Food Tech Shows at The Spoon. via Knit

The Spoon team got together on Clubhouse for another live recording of the weekly food tech news, including: -Online Grocery Weee! Raises $315M Series D Round -Cloud Software for Cloud Kitchens: Grubtech Raises $3.4M -GFI: $3.1 Billion Invested in Alternative Proteins in 2020, Tripling the Money Raised in 2019 -The Creators Behind Rare Pizzas Want to Use Pizza Art NFTs to Fund a Global Real-World Pizza Party -Are We Ready to Eat in Restaurants Again? Thanks to our special guest, Tom Mastrobuoni of Big Idea Ventures. As always, you can read the stories at The Spoon (www.thespoon.tech). via Knit

Naveen Jain has been on the forefront of technology for the last quarter century, starting one of the early seminal Internet companies in InfoSpace and eventually starting a space company in Moon Express. His current passion is Viome, a company focused on building high-precision nutrition information services and supplements derived from an understanding of a person's DNA, RNA and microbiome. via Knit

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Jim Mellon's new book, Moo's Law, looks at the future food industry through the lens of a long-time investor. Mellon is an investor and entrepreneur who also has written numerous books on industries such as biotech and investing. For his latest book, he interviewed the who's who of the future food industry and we discuss his findings on the podcast. via Knit

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If you're interested in the future of the home kitchen, restaurants or food in general, you won't want to miss this conversation with Chef Chris Young. Young announced his new company Combustion Inc this week, so we invited him to get on stage with us on Clubhouse to talk about lessons learned from his days at ChefSteps and Modernist Cuisine, what he's building at Combustion Inc and where he sees the world of restaurants going. It was a great conversation! via Knit

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Clara Foods is making eggs without the animal. The company has been working on its technology to make chickenless eggs since 2014 and finally released its first product last year. We talk to Clara Foods CEO Arturo Elizondo about a chicken-less egg future and how we get there. via Knit

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