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Northstar Unplugged

#048. Andrew Shakman: food waste, entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and filmmaking

Apr 26, 2021
58:48

Andrew Shakman is CEO and co-founder of Leanpath, a mission-driven foodservice technology company based in Portland, Oregon. Leanpath invented the world’s first automated food waste tracking technology in 2004, which now operates in thousands of foodservice kitchens in 40 countries, cutting their food waste in half. From the beginning, Andrew has worked to catalyze the global movement to address the food waste crisis. He has been featured in BusinessWeek, NPR, Forbes, Fast Company and many other publications. He has presented at the World Bank, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the Culinary Institute of America, Harvard, and before hundreds of other audiences. 

Resources:
Leanpath 
B Corp

Waste Free Kitchen Handbook (Dana Gunders)
Every Women Treaty
Portland Trail Blazers
ReFED
FAO

Andrew’s podcast recommendations:
Hidden Brain
How I Built This
The Daily

Andrew’s book recommendations:
American Wasteland (Jonathan Bloom)
Waste: The Global Food Scandal (Tristram Stuart)
No Rules Rule Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer)
The Art of the Start (Guy Kawasaki)



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