Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.

Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.

Hi, I'm Toby Corey, and I'd like to welcome you all

to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership series.

As you know, it's presented by STVP, the Entrepreneurship Center in the School of Engineering and Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students. Today, I am incredibly excited to welcome Ethan Brown to ETL. And let me share his background with you guys.

Okay.

So Ethan is the founder, president, CEO of Beyond Meat.

Amazing product, amazing innovation.

And by shifting consumption from animal to plant-based meat products, Beyond Meat aims to positively impact human health, the climate, natural resources, and animal welfare.

The company's raised more than $145 million in capital, as well as placements at prominent

grocery and restaurant chains like Whole Foods, TGI Fridays, and before debuting on the

NASDAQ Stock Exchange in May of 2019. Now, Ethan began his career with a focus on

clean energy and the environment, serving as an energy analyst for the National Govern Center

for the best practices and then joining the team at Ballard Power Systems, a hydrogen fuel

cell company. He's the recipient of the Henry Crown Fellowship from the Aspen Institute,

and he holds an MBA from Columbia University, as well as a master of public policy degree from the

University of Maryland. Ethan, welcome to ETL. Thank you so much for having me. It's a real

pleasure to be here. I look forward to our

discussion. Awesome. Well, we've got a big interview to get into right now. And so let me just

start out, where did the idea come from? And what was the problem you were trying to solve?

Sure. So I think for me, this was not a aha moment type of idea. I had begun to think about this issue in fits and

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