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18/02/2021

Creating a Chickenless-Egg With Clara Foods' Arturo Elizondo

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

18/02/2021

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30 min
16/11/2022

#138: WTF (Alt-Protein Edition) With Indiebio's Po Bronson

WTF is going on with alternative protein? To find out, we decided to catch up with one of our favorite people in future food, Indiebio's Po Bronson. Po went from being one of the early chroniclers of the dotcom boom via his novels and nonfiction titles to leading one of the most active investors and accelerators in the future of food in IndieBio, and in this podcast, we talk about his journey and how he become a VC. We also talk about the current struggles facing certain sectors of alt protein and where he sees things going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16/11/2022

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43 min
17/04/2025

Ask (former) FDA regulators anything

Today's guests: Drs. Dennis Keefe and Robert "Bob" Merker are former FDA Food regulators. Together, they have over half a century of experience keeping America's food safe. We sit down for a rare conversation with them together to learn how they spent their careers building a safe and robust food supply while at FDA as well as what it was like working on the most cutting edge food technology. Drs. Keefe and Merker oversaw some of the most transformational change in the food supply - it was a pleasure to be able to hear the inside story of our food from the inside. You can find more information about Dr. Keefe here https://www.exponent.com/people/dennis-keefe and Dr. Merker here https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-merker-6125992b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

17/04/2025

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1h 2m
11/11/2025

Eliot Horowitz Wants to Reinvent Robotics Like He Did Big Data

In this episode, Michael talks with Eliot Horowitz, founder of MongoDB and now CEO of Viam, about why the physical world is lagging behind the AI revolution and how Viam is building the foundational platform robotics has been missing. Eliot shares why robotics needs its “AWS moment,” how better tools can shrink development timelines from years to months, and why practical automation, from kitchen assistants to back-of-house restaurant robots, will arrive long before humanoids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11/11/2025

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26 min
17/04/2025

Advanced Multiplex Gene Editing with Ponsi Trivisvavet

Born in Thailand, Ponsi is the CEO & Director of Inari, the SEEDesign™ company using predictive design and advanced multiplex gene editing to unlock the full potential of seed. She earned her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering, focusing on fiber optics. Realizing that she wanted to work more closely with people, she earned an MBA at Cornell University and then joined McKinsey & Company.

17/04/2025

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27 min
27/05/2025

Discovering New Foods with Chidimma Ifeh

A young researcher shares her passion for uncovering new foods that can help feed the world.

27/05/2025

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37 min
10/12/2022

Food Tech Friday: Talking Food Robots With Clayton Wood

Our guest this week on our weekly food tech news wrapup is Clayton Wood, the CEO of pizza robot startup Picnic. We talk food tech news and then hear Clayton's view on where things are going in the world of food robots. Here are some of the stories we covered: The Food tech venture capital market really dropped hard in Q3.: Food tech venture drops 63% quarter over quarter One sector that seems to be somewhat active in Web3 meets restaurants: Seattle's Forum3 announces funding on heels of launching Starbucks' NFT-centric loyalty program. Two Fast-Grocery Delivery Giants Have Merged: Turkish fast delivery company Getir has closed its acquisition of German rival Gorillas as fast grocery continues to consolidate. Wonder Lays off 7% of Workers: Marc Lore's food delivery unicorn has its first layoff as growth goes slower than expected. Colleges are embracing delivery robots. Grubhub announced a partnership with Kiwi, adding to their partnerships with Starship and Cartken. Is there something about college campuses that make them a logical testing ground for food robotics? And we put Clayton on the food robot hot seat, asking him: How would you assess the food robot marketplace in 2022? Will we see some consolidation in certain areas of food robotics in 2023? Predictions for the 2023 food robot market. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10/12/2022

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38 min
20/07/2024

Gene Edited Tomatoes & Rethinking Robots Restaurants - FTNS #2

On this week's episode of the Food Tech News Show, longtime podcaster, former host of Marketplace, and all-around nice person Molly Wood joins Carlos and Mike to discuss the food tech stories of the week. On this week's episode, we talk about: Tomatoes are thirsty crops. Here’s how CRISPR gene-editing could help them thrive with less water Food recycler Mill unveils pilot study results Meatly gets nod to sell cultivated meat in UK Chipotle founder realizes he needs a few humans in the front of house Google backed company launches AI startup to map the entirety of the world's farm land And more! Tune in to The Spoon's new dedicated weekly food tech news show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20/07/2024

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32 min
08/02/2022

#120: Buying a Restaurant With friesDAO

When Bill Lee and Brett Beller started talking about the idea of using a DAO and an NFT to buy a McDonald's, they were mostly joking around. Before long, they had started a Discord server and friesDAO had raised over $4 million. Now they had to figure out how to make it happen. In this episode we talk with Bill Lee, an advisor to friesDAO, about their plans to use a DAO to purchase a restaurant (and possibly multiple restaurants) and operate them through a decentralized autonomous organization. The conversation talks about the possibilities of crypto and a Web3 community as a new way to do business in the restaurant industry. via Knit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

08/02/2022

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46 min
12/06/2022

#129: Food Tech News Show: Electrolux Rethinks the Kitchen

Can the design of your kitchen change how and what you eat? Electrolux thinks so. In this week's episode of the Spoon podcast's food tech news wrapup, we discuss Electrolux's new kitchen concept called GRO, Taco Bell's restaurant of the future, a new mushroom grow chamber called Shrooli and a new countertop cooking appliance with a built-in freezer called Celcy. As always, you can read about these stores at The Spoon (www.thespoon.tech). via Knit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/06/2022

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39 min

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