Rapid Response: How to cultivate a new industry, w/Upside Foods CEO Uma Valeti, MD
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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When the FDA blessed Upside Foods’ grown-from-cells chicken as safe to eat, it was a coming-of-age moment for cultivated meat. Upside founder and CEO Uma Valeti, MD, shares his journey of convincing skeptics, landing investors from Bill Gates to food giants Tyson and Cargill, and building a collaborative partnership with the FDA and USDA. Plus, his lessons on leadership from a career in cardiology and what it will take to convert consumers to a never-before-seen product.
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| 1:15.0 | For someone who's a meat lover when they first taste cultivated meat, they'll have an |
| 1:19.8 | experience that is going to be surreal and probably out of body type of experience. |
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