Walter Thompson and Ram Iyer were at 3:37 PM on January 11, 2022.
If you drive past a cattle feedlot in Coalinga, CA, or a hog waste lagoon in North Carolina, the smell travels for miles.
Consumers, regulators, and meat producers have learned to live with the many drawbacks of raising animals for food at scale: greenhouse gases, water pollution, unsafe working conditions, and inhumane practices.
A report by the United Nations says we need to double global food production by the year 2050 to meet the needs of 10 billion people.
The rise of a global middle class has led to rising demand for meat. The people who have the most buying power are also fans of cheeseburgers, and with consumption and population growth steadily increasing, one might even say meat is eating the world.
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Christine Hall, a reporter for TechCrunch+, looked at the state of the cell-cultured meat industry and identified many of the startups that are innovative in the sector, along with the challenges they face when it comes to ramping up production and getting regulators and consumers on their side.
Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, said that the most important thing for other companies to do is to focus on the design, engineering and full-scale installations of vessels and the supporting systems.
Friederike Grosse-Holz, a director at impact investment firm Blue Horizon, said lab-grown meat is a little like a moonshot, but predicts that 11% of the seafood, meat, eggs and dairy consumed globally in 2035 will come from alternative sources.
We don't know which technology will be the best. It is good that there are so many players.
Thanks a lot for reading.
Walter Thompson is a senior editor.
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Alternative financing can be used to fuel growth at the VC level.
VC funding isn't always the right option for every startup, but investors are hungry for startups to throw their money at.
Revenue financing or expense financing can be useful for a startup, even if they are overshadowed by the VC model.
In an in-depth post, Fernandez explains how to tell which option is right for you.
Alternative financing can be used to fuel growth at the VC level.
The definition of value add is due for a refresh.
The steady commoditization of capital is one of the most notable trends in tech.
As founders get more investor interest, they are changing how they invest, what they offer to their cohort, and how they maximize value and attract top talent.
Early-stage investors are going back to the drawing board to see what is truly a value-add service as capital gets further commoditized.
The definition of value add is due for a refresh.
How to assess and strengthen the health of your business is not dependent on averages.
It can be difficult to keep track of what is working when you are building a startup.
Karen Peacock, the CEO of Intercom, warns that averages can be dangerous when used to track how well your business is doing.
If Jeff Bezos walks into a bar with 100 people, the net worth of each individual in that bar is over a billion dollars. Is that useful? Would that lead you to do the right thing? Averages don't hide true insights.
Peacock shows how founders can assess their business's strengths and weaknesses, and how they need to work harder to find leaks in the bucket.
How to assess and strengthen the health of your business is not dependent on averages.
Tech debt can be prevented by startups.
New features, customizing your product and going to market are all proven ways to drive growth.
A lot of companies that go on building sprees without a clear product roadmap end up with a lot of technical debt.
Four rules for engineering teams were proposed by Raghunathan.
Don't allow specific implementations to continue for more than three months.
An architecture review of the product is done every 18 months.
Two months after the launch, upgrade to new open source versions.
Understand the product and identify the NFRs.
Tech debt can be prevented by startups.
With more data available, are companies making better decisions?
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Data is the greatest asset of many companies.
In a follow-up to a post about the rise of Big Data, enterprise reporter Ron Miller looked back at the intervening seven years and found that infrastructure, technology and data analysis tools have all improved dramatically, but it is not a solution to the problem.
With more data available, are companies making better decisions?
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If the event only attracts 25% of the crowd, who is it essential for?
After several years of covering the Consumer Electronics Show, the transportation editor, hardware editor, and reporter from the tech news site, talked about how the event has changed, and what this means for hardware companies.
The automotive luster has not been lost at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Hardware startups should rethink their media strategies.
I missed it this year.
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For weeks, Tumblr hid search results on the App Store to comply with guidelines. Today, Tumblr is trying to solve the issue by rolling out sensitive content.
It is important for leaders to understand and articulate how equity is determined.
Back Market has raised a lot of money. The company raised $335 million in a Series D round. The company is announcing a Series E round.
Monica has more than 15 years of experience working at tech companies. She didn't have a mentor to help her navigate her way.
Locket, a new social app, was at the top of the App Store charts in recent days, thanks to its clever premise to put live photos from friends in a widget on your homescreen. In other words, I...
A London-based fintech targeting Gen Z and younger consumers with an e-money account that gives them instant cash-outs on fashion and electronics they want to sell has closed.
Water has been found on the surface of the Moon, marking the first time scientists have found evidence of the substance on Earth.
The National Labor Relations Board has announced plans for a second vote among Amazon warehouse employees. The follow-up would be conducted via email.
IBM announced this morning that it has acquired Australian startup Envizi to add to its package of environmental, social and governance offerings.
Today, the company introduced a new Live TV Zone that will roll out to the main, left-side navigation on its devices. T...
The technology, intellectual property and assets of a Boston startup that was trying to develop electric shuttles have been acquired by a Canadian company. The deal was announced Tuesday.
In a new partnership that should break new ground for sustainable orbital operations, a startup called Orbit Fab has formed a partnership with Astroscale to provide on-orbit refueling.
Based on regulatory filings, Doctolib is expected to close the acquisition of Tanker today. Doctolib is a French company that develops a software-as-a-service product.
The results are proving to be pure trash so frequently once the hype has died down and real, post-debut life begins that I would hazard we have collected enough data to call the SPAC boom a fai...
Fertilis is the latest startup to join a wave of companies that are trying to make in vitro fertilization less stress and more successful for patients.
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