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H.B.R. presents. Hi everyone I'm Azimazar and you are listening to the Exponential View podcast.

Now every week I come together with a brilliant mind to discuss the near future in our rapidly changing world.

Now my guest today is Mike

Zielkind, he is the co-founder and CEO of 80 Acres Farm and he is at the

Vanguard of a movement to transform inefficient and unsustainable and occasionally cumbersome food

system.

His vision is bold.

It's a huge network of urban indoor farms that produce crops all year round for their local areas, all grown pesticide-free, powered

by renewable energy.

Now this is no bucolic fantasy, we're talking about climate controlled multi-story buildings bathed in purple LED light

where almost every aspect of a plant's life is informed by data.

Now before we get started a quick note to say we have a small audience of

exponential view premium members listening in on to the recording and

they'll have the opportunity to feed me questions for Mike throughout the

discussion. To become a member go to W.

Well Mike, welcome to the Exponential View podcast.

Azim, thank you for having me.

I'm quite a fan, so I'm really excited about having this conversation with you.

We met not too long ago and you shared with me your quite damning critique about the way that the

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