Welcome to Inside the Hive. I'm your host Nick Billton. So a couple of months ago I saw a TED Talk by a woman named Seramenka called a global food crisis maybe less than a decade away. It was truly

fascinating, truly scary and also a little uplifting and I'll explain why in a

little bit. So Sarah is a genius who started a company called Grow Intelligence.

I'm going to let her explain what it does and how it works using artificial

intelligence and markets and all these things.

But first I want to tell you a little bit about why I decided that you'd be the perfect

guess this week.

So it's Thanksgiving, we're all fat and full after too much turkey and whatnot, and

after seeing this video realize that there's a

topic that we don't really ever get to because we're so focused on Facebook and

all these things and Donald Trump and the topic is that in about a decade there are going to be billions of people on this planet who will not be able to eat there will be not enough food for them

There's a lot of reasons for this that Sarah is going to explain from

Geopolitical reasons to climate change to the fact

that we are growing as a population at a speed that is just unstoppable. So I thought

this would be the perfect week to have this conversation. So it's a really

amazing conversation. It's a little scary, but at the end of it you'll see there is actually

a solution to the problem.

Sarah Manker, thank you so much for being with us today after Thanksgiving Turkey.

It is a perfect conversation to be having about food shortage around the world.

Before we get to all that, how did you end up becoming the person that was the expert on this topic?

So I started off my career out of college becoming a commodities

trader and I did not trade agriculture I actually traded energy and in 2008 I

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