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I'm Josh Mujio and from Gimlet this is the pitch. So back in 2016 there is a

founder who pitched our investors at a studio in San Francisco and let's just say that this pitch did not go as planned.

In fact when we recently got in touch with the founder she was hesitant to come back on the

show but eventually she said yes after much begging and

pleading and it turned out she had a lot to say she wanted to set the record

straight on some things. So on this week's episode we're going to travel back in time and listen to the pitch for industrial organic,

a food waste startup founded by Amanda Weeks. And then we'll fast forward to today

and visit the facility where Amanda's germ of an idea

has blossomed into a real business.

All right, here's the original. I wanted to do like Uber for Waste Management.

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