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The Dave Chang Show

Unreasonable and Radical Ideas With Lucas Mann

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Society & Culture, Arts

4.88.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Dave and Chris call up Acre Venture Partners co-founder Lucas Mann to talk about how a future-focused VC firm engages with the tough-to-change worlds of food and agriculture—and about why Dave and Acre decided to work together. Plus: Patagonia vests, alternative protein, brilliant and world-changing people doing totally off-the-wall shit, getting a degree in Tibetan Buddhism, pork cocoons, 3D-printed fish grown in a car trunk, Slow Food, the sugar-industrial complex, the Island of Dr. Moreau, and a last-minute shark-tank pitch from Dave Chang. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Lucas Mann Producer: Sasha Ashall Additional Production: Jordan Bass and Lala Rasor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The goal explained the 1990s in exactly 60 songs.

0:04.8

The result we did it.

0:06.1

I'm Rob Harvilla.

0:07.3

I host 60 songs that explain the 90s which has, indeed,

0:10.4

covered 60 fantastic songs thus far from 2-pock to radio-head to TLC.

0:15.7

So let's do 30 more.

0:17.1

Let's do 90 songs.

0:18.6

No, we're not changing the name.

0:20.0

More red songs, more special guests, more astute critical analysis,

0:24.4

more loopy nostalgic exuberance.

0:26.5

That's 60 songs that explain the 90s every Wednesday only on Spotify.

0:45.4

Welcome to the Dan Cheng show, part of the Rio podcast at work presented by Major Delma Nudia.

0:49.5

Thank you, Olatango, as always.

0:51.1

This podcast today is an interview with Lucas Mann, the general partner for Acre.

0:56.0

A venture capital shop and you may listen to this, but you're like,

0:59.2

oh, why am I listening to this?

1:01.7

What the fuck?

1:03.3

Part of it is my podcast.

1:06.3

And in some way, this is part press release that I'm joining the team as a partner for their new fund.

1:14.6

And we're going to go into discussion as to why.

1:17.8

And why I chose Acre and this doesn't take away from all the projects we're doing on media.

1:23.3

This doesn't take away from all the stuff we're doing with the team at Moamifuku.

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