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How VCs evaluate pre-launch startups + Mycocycle's Joanne Rodriguez | E1540

This Week in Startups

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Can Mushrooms Break Down Construction Materials?

So mushrooms can literally break down construction material like, i think when people hear the idea, you know, of converting waste into some other product using mushrooms. So we use a classification fungi called white rat mushrooms, and which is huge. There's a ton of species in there, so they're very, a rigorous to break down forest,. You see mushrooms growing on a dead tree. It decomposes it within a months. We're basically taking that same mechanism of the fungi, the mysulium, the root structure that dispatches these engymes to break it down.

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