How to Train Mushrooms to Eat Trash and Create New Materials

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Joanne rodriguez, founder in so of mico cycle. I'm training mushrooms to eat trash and create new raw materials. We're treating the fourth largest waste stream, biing, land fill, construction and demolition waste. And then we use that micilium to create new materials. Because it's not only nature's cycler, it's nature's builder.

Sunday show! First up, Jason breaks down how VCs evaluate pre-launch startups (1:54) and startups that are going after a market that doesn't exist yet. (15:21) Then, Molly is joined by Mycocycle CEO and Founder Joanne Rodriguez to talk about developing fungi-powered toxic waste removal and raw material generation! (30:36)

(0:00) Molly intros today's segments!

(1:54) VC Sunday School: How Jason evaluates pre-launch startups

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(15:21) How VCs evaluate startups building for markets that don't exist yet

(20:51) Comparing early examples of traction: pre-orders, crowdfunding, LOIs and more

(29:16) Masterworks - Skip the waitlist to invest in fine art using at https://Masterworks.io/twist

(30:36) Mycocycle CEO Joanne Rodriguez joins to talk about fungi-powered toxic waste removal and raw material generation

(38:26) Helpware - Go to https://helpware.com/TWIST to get $1000 off your first invoice

(39:33) Mycocycle's finished product, how they're recycling raw materials, traction so far, future of the business

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