Do You Feel the Pressure of Financing and Funding?

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For every success we have, there are at least ten failures. I don't think there's a day that goes by when we're not thinking about moving from an r and d company into food production. Part of it is driven by the perils that our oceans are facing. If we don't seriously turn things round by the middle part of the century, we can just say good bye to the b city that exists in our oceans,. And so on one hand, you know that the pressure of returning money in n a venture funded business might lead to some unintended consequences - but for a mission as profoundly urgent as ours, it might actually be a fairly positive one.

When Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck met in 2011, they had no intention of starting a business. Aryé was a cardiologist, and Justin was a diplomat who had lived in countries all over the world. But their chance meeting at a dinner party led to a deep friendship focused on working together to change the world. Through regular Saturday morning brainstorming sessions, they settled on pursuing a scientific approach to growing meat for human consumption.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Aryé and Justin discuss the problems with modern seafood production and how their company, Wildtype, hopes to revolutionize the industry by using stem cells to cultivate real, sushi-grade salmon...without harming any actual fish.

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