The content here is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal business, tax, or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any A16Z fund. For more details, please see A16Z.com slash disclosures.

Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland.

Right about now, you're pondering what to eat or maybe pondering why you ate so much.

And so in that spirit, we thought it was a good time to talk about the future of food.

To help us do that on the podcast, we brought in Rob Reinhardt, who is the CEO and founder

of Soylent, which is an engineered food.

It's complete nutrition for people, and it comes in a powder and a bottle.

And also on the podcast, we have Chris Dixon, who led the firm's investment in Soylent.

So we get Rob and Chris to talk about food and what the future of food systems might look like.

Bring your favorite snack under your belt, maybe, and let's talk about food and what the future of food systems might look like. Bring your favorite snack

under your belt maybe and let's talk about food. Rob, Chris, welcome. Thank you, Michael.

You guys are all amped up on Soylent. I can see we have bottles. And I like this sort of anonymous

white bottle. It's very sleek and yet from the future. Thanks. I hear

the word ominous sometimes. I like the minimalism that and you know you can drink it and it doesn't

have to be this big advertisement but I like the simplicity of the design. It looks it looks a little

bit like the stormtrooper of food, I have to say.

Thank you, I guess. Well, it depends which side you're on, honestly. Obviously, the dark side.

So when Chris was talking up Soylent, and when we started to see sort of the uptake in, like, the Reddit world, for example, I was hugely skeptical. I'm like, why do we want this?

And it turns out more and more and more people want this. But let's start with where it

began and then where the community has taken it. It began because I really wanted it. I noticed

that is something that I had a very strong

personal need for. I was very passionate about technology and development and using science and tech

...