Welcome to the After-On podcast. I'm your host, Rob Reed.

And this is a series of conversations with thinkers, founders, and scientists.

Take a little time and stretch out because these talks are unhurried and meant to bring

you to a top percentile understanding of something important.

So whether you're ready to start up score ideas, a techie or a lit major, take your time,

engage your mind, and you'll be glad you did it.

Especially this week when we'll be talking to Andrew Jung, a young American entrepreneur

who's built an organization with remarkable speed that's simply vast by the standards of

tech and life science startups. It's not based in San Francisco, Austin, or any other tech

hub. Because Andrew's not making a restaurant hunting app or a micro blog. He's instead

trying to transform the food security of some of the poorest people on our planet. And

his organization's scalability and capital efficiency would be the envy of many of tech's

greatest startups. It's called the One Acre Fund, and it's based in Ruben Gura, Rwanda,

a small provincial town that's halfway across the country from the capital city of Kagali.

Andrew certainly isn't the first founder to appear on this show. Still, this is an unusual

episode in that neither science nor technology sit at the center of his creation. But Andrew's

work is still at least as important as that of any entrepreneur. And I believe our conversation

will fascinate you. So hopefully you'll enjoy this partial hiatus from my show's normal

obsessions. Before I tell you more about Andrew and One Acre Fund, I'd like to share an

update on a few activities of mine, which are related to the show yet independent of it.

First I'm hugely excited to tell you I'm working on a fairly ambitious article for the Sunday

New York Times magazine. Getting this assignment resulted directly from an episode I ran earlier

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