How ocean farming can solve world hunger with Alora CEO Luke Young | E1698
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Alora CEO and Co-Founder Luke Young joins Molly to discuss ocean agriculture and the ability to grow crops offshore (1:17). They discuss the progression of engineering that has propelled Alora’s innovations (11:55) and the challenges of growing at sea (21:53).
(0:00) Intro!
(1:17) Alora’s mission and technological advancements
(5:46) Mitigation and adaptation
(7:58) The first taste test
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(11:55) Alora’s progression and timeline
(16:26) Designing infrastructure and engineering fertilizer
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(21:53) Challenges of growing on the ocean
(26:14) Alora’s Business Model
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(30:10) Salt tolerance
(35:17) Alora’s Customer and cost of development
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| 0:53.2 | first month free at fennel.com slash twist. On today's show Molly interviews |
| 1:00.5 | Alora CEO Luke Young they discuss how ocean farming and the ability to grow crops |
| 1:05.8 | offshore can lead to an abundance of food. They also talk about the progression of |
| 1:10.9 | technological advancement in the ocean agriculture space and much more. |
| 1:16.8 | Luke Young is a CEO and co-founder at Alora a startup that is genetically |
| 1:21.1 | fortifying crops so they can grow in the ocean. Luke, welcome to this weekend |
| 1:27.2 | climate startups. Thank you very much Molly. I'm very excited to be here. |
| 1:31.0 | This is amazing. Just tell us how it works. Tell us what you're doing. |
| 1:35.2 | Absolutely. Yeah. I mean it is very cutting it. Everything we are doing right now |
| 1:39.6 | couldn't have been done five years ago. So what we're doing is we'll hold on. |
| 1:44.0 | Why not? Well, you know what? Hold on. No. First tell us what you're doing. See |
| 1:47.4 | this is what happens. I get too excited. First tell us what you're doing and then I'll |
| 1:50.2 | ask you about their technology. Absolutely. Yeah. So what we are doing exactly is |
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