Tomorrow's Bites with Andrés and Sjacco

Andrés and Sjacco

Food is a problem and this podcast is full of solutions. Hosted by Andrés and Sjacco, Tomorrow’s Bites takes you inside the minds of the food founders, brand builders, experts, and investors shaping the future of food. Each episode, we open their playbook: the breakthroughs, the failures no one talks about, and what it really takes to turn a food business into a household name. If you’re making an impact in food, building a food business, or just hungry to understand where it’s all headed, this podcast is for you.

  1. 2d ago

    How a Yorkshire Farmer Built 100 Products From One Crop, Without a Business Degree - With Adam Palmer Regenerative Farmer & Entrepreneur of the Honest Bean & more

    What do you do when you realise at 19 years old that farming alone will never pay the bills and you have no business degree, no brand experience, and one crop to work with? In this episode of Tomorrow's Bites, we sit down with Adam Palmer, regenerative farmer and founder of Littleseed, Charlie & Ivy's, and The Honest Bean Company a man who built over 100 products from a single farm on the hills of the Yorkshire Wolds, entirely through trial, error, and the fearlessness of not knowing what he didn't know. Adam went fully regenerative in 2019, no pilot, no small trials, straight in. He stopped ploughing overnight, rebuilt his soil from scratch, and quietly became one of the last cold-press rapeseed oil producers standing in the UK after a market of 60 or 70 brands rose and collapsed around him. Along the way, he learned branding the hard way, watched a product fail because the label was dark blue, relaunched it and saw a 60% sales uplift without changing a single ingredient, and then turned a bucket of stolen fava beans from a neighbor's shed into a snack brand consumers genuinely love. We explore: Why Adam went fully regenerative overnight — no trials, no safety net — and what happened to his soil, his yields, and his bills How farming taught him that soil is an asset, not a surface — and why most farmers around him still haven't made that shift The 66-bottle farmer's market moment that convinced him to build a food brand from scratch What a brand consultant standing in a Scottish farm shop aisle taught him about why good products fail How raw fava beans sent to locked-down strangers on the internet became the research behind The Honest Bean CompanyThis is a story about what happens when a farmer refuses to just be a commodity supplier and builds an entire ecosystem of value from a single piece of land. 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW  If you like our podcast please leave us a review on your favourite platform – even one sentence helps! Thank you for your support; it helps the show a lot and it helps others to discover the show!  👋 GET IN TOUCH WITH US 👥 ⁠Linkedin⁠ 📸 ⁠Instagram⁠ 🌎 ⁠⁠Website⁠ 😊 The Guest: Adam Palmer Look into Honest beans

    How a Yorkshire Farmer Built 100 Products From One Crop, Without a Business Degree - With Adam Palmer Regenerative Farmer & Entrepreneur of the Honest Bean & more

  2. Jul 15

    Building in Public #9: How To Win Essential Partnerships With Retailers, Wholesalers and Farmers with Andres Jara Co-Founder of Favamole

    What if the real reason your retail partnerships aren't converting has nothing to do with your product and everything to do with how you think about the word "sales"? In this episode of Building in public, we check back in with Andres Jara, founder of Favamole, for another building-in-public update, and this one goes deep on the thing that nobody in food business school teaches you: how to actually build relationships across an entire supply chain, without ever reducing people to the role they play in your revenue model. From farmers to wholesalers to restaurant chefs, Andres has been learning — often the hard way — that every link in the food supply chain runs on the same currency: trust. And trust, it turns out, follows seasons, requires patience, and has almost nothing to do with a cold email. We explore: Why the "valley of death" for food startups isn't about cash flow — it's about whether partners believe you'll still be there next yearHow Andres thinks about wholesalers not as logistics partners but as ecosystem players — and why that changes everything about how you show up in a meetingThe dinner that changed how he thinks about stakeholder relationships: inviting chefs, farmers, investors, and caterers to celebrate the supply chain itselfWhy the word "cold" in cold outreach is the real problem — and how reframing it shifts the energy of every message you sendHow timing within natural seasons should dictate when you talk to farmers, restaurants, and retailers — and why ignoring that rhythm costs you relationshipsWhat's coming after summer: a new retailer listing, a product rebrand, and a flavor born from subtraction, not addition🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW  If you like our podcast please leave us a review on your favourite platform – even one sentence helps! Thank you for your support; it helps the show a lot and it helps others to discover the show!  👋 GET IN TOUCH WITH US 👥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🌎 ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Building in Public #9: How To Win Essential Partnerships With Retailers, Wholesalers and Farmers with Andres Jara Co-Founder of Favamole

  3. Jul 8

    How to Build a Winning Food Brand in 2026: An Investor's Honest Take - with Founding Partner of Gota Ventures, Vincent Kuiper

    In this episode of Tomorrow's Bites, we sit down with Vincent Kuiper, founding partner of Gota Ventures, to build what might be the most honest roadmap for launching a food brand in 2026. Vincent has now covered over a dozen case studies of breakout CPG brands. Graza, Chomps, Upfront, Good Girl Snacks... What he found across all of them isn't what most founders expect to hear. Vincent started investing at 16. His father gave him a brokerage account with 50 euros as a birthday present and said: just play with it. Fifteen years later, he co-founded an international angel syndicate of 55 investors from 15 countries, many of them former insiders at Cargill, Unilever, and major beverage companies, built specifically to open a food industry he calls a closed ecosystem. What he learned from the inside is this: most food startups don't fail because the product is bad. They fail because they try to change how people behave. In this conversation, Vincent breaks down the full journey from idea to shelf: Why the most overlooked categories in the supermarket are the most interesting ones to build in right nowThe one metric he checks before anything else when a food brand lands in his inboxWhy he would not invest in an electrolyte brand today, and what that says about copycat risk across the whole CPG spaceHow Chomps reached 900 million in revenue with two or three SKUs, and what most founders do insteadThe manufacturing decision that founders always get wrong in the first yearWhen D2C is a testing lab and when it becomes a crutchWhy retail velocity matters more than follower count when he's doing due diligenceWhat he thinks about Upfront's move into supermarkets, and why he's watching it closelyThis is a conversation about commercial reality, category timing, and the discipline it takes to build something that lasts beyond a trend cycle. If you are building a food brand or thinking about it, this is the episode to listen to before you make your next move. Share it with a founder who is about to scale before they are ready. GOT SOMEONE IN MIND? ⁠TELL US⁠ WHO WE SHOULD BRING NEXT. 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW  If you like our podcast please leave us a review on your favourite platform – even one sentence helps! Thank you for your support; it helps the show a lot and it helps others to discover the show!  👋 GET IN TOUCH WITH US 👥 ⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠ 📸 ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠🌎 ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠ 😊 The Guest: Vincent Kuiper Look into: Gota Ventures

    How to Build a Winning Food Brand in 2026: An Investor's Honest Take - with Founding Partner of Gota Ventures, Vincent Kuiper

  4. Jul 1

    The Part Listener's Didn't Skip: How This Regenerative Farmer Built A Brand That Is Selling Better Than Conventional - from our conversation with Farmer and Founder of Squeeze Citrus, Herb Young

    Can a tiny farm out-earn a commodity grower? Herb Young proves it can. His neighbors thought he'd gone crazy: an organic hippie with 1,350 citrus trees. Then they saw his website: sold out, sold out, sold out. Now those same conventional farmers are calling him for advice. Herb built Squeeze Citrus as a commercial brand from day one, with professional branding, direct-to-consumer marketing, and a story rooted in nutrient density and regenerative farming. He found his customers in a health-conscious niche, not the supermarket next door. With Herb, we unpack how a food brand built on soil health and premium positioning can beat the commodity game. In 12 min you learn how regenerative agriculture, smart branding, and a clear market can turn a small farm into a sold-out food business. Listen to the full episode here

  5. Jun 24

    Inside the Venture Studio Turning 300 Applicants Into Food System Changers - With Bart van der Zande Director Fresh Ventures Studio

    What if the missing ingredient in the food system isn't a better product, but a better way to build the people who build the products? In this episode of Tomorrow's Bites, we sit down with Bart van der Zande, Director of Fresh Ventures, a venture studio on a mission to transform the food system by doing something that accelerators and VCs largely don't: building companies from scratch, before the idea even exists, with founders who are selected not just for their skills but for their relationship with a problem. From 3,000 people reached to 300 applications to 25 carefully chosen founders per cohort, Fresh Ventures runs one of the most intentional company-building processes in the agri-food space. Bart has seen what separates the founders who break through from the ones who don’t, and it has very little to do with the technology they build. We explore: Why venture studios are fundamentally different from accelerators and VCs and why the food system specifically needs all three How Fresh Ventures selects founders before the solution exists and why "problem-founder fit" matters more than the pitch Why deep domain experts are often the hardest people to get unstuck and how to coach them back to the problem they're actually best placed to solve The red flags Bart watches for in founders: fixed mindsets, burning relationships, and falling in love with a solution instead of a problem How the same venture building model is now being replicated in Uganda and Tanzania and why the approach has to be completely different And much more… This is a conversation about what it actually takes to build companies that don't just grow but change the system they operate in. GOT SOMEONE IN MIND? TELL US WHO WE SHOULD BRING NEXT. 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW  If you like our podcast please leave us a review on your favourite platform – even one sentence helps! Thank you for your support; it helps the show a lot and it helps others to discover the show!  👋 GET IN TOUCH WITH US 👥 ⁠Linkedin⁠ 📸 ⁠Instagram⁠ 🌎 ⁠⁠Website⁠ 😊 The Guest: Bart van der Zande Look into: Fresh ventures Venturing Into Regenerative Food Systems for everyone that do not know where to start.

    Inside the Venture Studio Turning 300 Applicants Into Food System Changers - With Bart van der Zande Director Fresh Ventures Studio

  6. Jun 17

    The Part Listeners Didn't Skip: How Food Startups Can Leverage Their Branding To Get Listed in Wholesalers - with Steve D. Sailopal, co-founder of Curry Smugglers

    How can you position yourself when you don't have a distribution network or the necessary industry connections? Maybe everything you need to catch people attention is identity. Curry Smugglers didn't knock on wholesaler doors, the wholesaler called them. Steve D. Sailopal built a brand distinctive enough that Selfridges stocked it, Fortnum & Mason gave them a full window display on Piccadilly, and buyers came looking. The product started in focus groups in Margate, and from there the brand took it to London's most iconic shops. With Steve, we unpack how branding does the selling before your sales team exists. In 9 min you learn why standing out is the only distribution strategy that matters early on.

  7. Jun 10

    Why Blockchain Is Going To Change Agriculture and Food Businesses Forever - with Neil Smith, Co-Founder of Grow

    The farmer knows more about your food than anyone. But he doesn't own a single byte of data about it. Someone else does and they're not sharing the value back. In this episode of Tomorrow's Bites, we sit down with Neil Smith, co-founder of Grow, to unpack one of the most counterintuitive arguments in food right now: that blockchain, the technology most people associate with crypto speculation, might be the most powerful tool farmers have ever been handed. Neil didn't come from tech. He grew up farming in Canada, barely scratching two pennies together in bad years, watching a market system that rewarded yield over nutrition and stripped farmers of any real voice. His youngest sister has stage four cancer, brought on by what he describes as the failures of our food system. That's not theory for him. It's personal. What he built with Grow isn't a crypto play. It's a ledger that nobody can manipulate, and the first blockchain built specifically around the utility of feeding people, not the speculation of trading tokens. In this conversation, Neil reveals: Why farmers are the most data-rich people in the food chain, and the least compensated for itHow Grow's first validation case was tracing regenerative food from a single farm to Amazon's Climate Pledge Arena, and why that changed everythingWhy the biggest obstacle to fixing the food system isn't consumer behavior, it's yield, and the entire economic model built around itHow a convertible blockchain token creates real utility without ever needing to flip back to fiat currencyWhy it's older farmers, not younger ones, who are the first to adopt what Grow is building, and what that says about the future of the family farmThe assumption that almost derailed the whole project: that change has to come from the ground upAnd why 20,000 community members in two years, 60% of them farmers, convinced him that the timing might finally be rightThis is a conversation about trust, data sovereignty, and what it actually takes to build technology that serves the people growing our food, not the companies selling it. If you work in food, agriculture, or impact investment and you've ever wondered whether blockchain is real or just noise, this episode will change how you think about it. GOT SOMEONE IN MIND? ⁠TELL US⁠ WHO WE SHOULD BRING NEXT. 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW  If you like our podcast please leave us a review on your favourite platform – even one sentence helps! Thank you for your support; it helps the show a lot and it helps others to discover the show!  👋 GET IN TOUCH WITH US 👥 ⁠Linkedin⁠ 📸 ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠🌎 Website⁠ 😊 The Guest: ⁠Neil Smith⁠ The company: Grow The community: Grow Skool

    Why Blockchain Is Going To Change Agriculture and Food Businesses Forever - with Neil Smith, Co-Founder of Grow

  8. Jun 3

    Building in Public #8: How To Secure Funding As A Food Startup In Your First Year - With Andres Jara Co-Founder Of Favamole

    Most food startups run out of money before they run out of ideas. The ones that don't share one thing in common: they started planting before they were hungry. In this Build in Public episode of Tomorrow's Bites, Andres Jara is back with a month that took him from securing funding in the Netherlands to speaking on stage at a regenerative agriculture summit in Colombia, and seeing his father for the first time in seventeen years. This episode goes deep on something most founders avoid talking about in public: the actual mechanics of funding a food startup without giving away equity, without accumulating debt you can't repay, and without signing something that ends your journey before it begins. Andres breaks down the exact funding construction Favamole used, combining a grant from Stichting DOEN, a co-financed arrangement with the Rabo Foundation, and a convertible grant structure most founders have never even heard of. But the real lesson isn't financial. It's about timing. In this conversation, Andres reveals: Why the biggest funding mistake founders make is starting to look when they're desperate, and what to do insteadHow a convertible grant works: you only pay it back if you succeed, and why that changes everything psychologicallyWhy Favamole split its funding plan across two organizations on purpose and what transparency had to do with itWhat Colombia's 53-year civil war accidentally protected, and why it makes it one of the most exciting food systems on the planet right nowWhy he went to a Latin American summit and refused to ask for anythingAnd what meeting his father after 17 years taught him about how to show up in a negotiation🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW  If you like our podcast please leave us a review on your favourite platform – even one sentence helps! Thank you for your support; it helps the show a lot and it helps others to discover the show!  👋 GET IN TOUCH WITH US 👥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠🌎 ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠

    Building in Public #8: How To Secure Funding As A Food Startup In Your First Year - With Andres Jara Co-Founder Of Favamole
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Food is a problem and this podcast is full of solutions. Hosted by Andrés and Sjacco, Tomorrow’s Bites takes you inside the minds of the food founders, brand builders, experts, and investors shaping the future of food. Each episode, we open their playbook: the breakthroughs, the failures no one talks about, and what it really takes to turn a food business into a household name. If you’re making an impact in food, building a food business, or just hungry to understand where it’s all headed, this podcast is for you.

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