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Wild Hearts

Building Dream Teams at the Frontier of Food - Pt. 2 With Vow

Aug 24, 2021
01:01:27

Welcome to the second coming of Vow! Today, we speak with George Peppou and Tim Noakesmith, co-founders of Vow, as well as Ellen Dinsmoor, Vow’s Head of Operations, and Samantha Wong, a General Partner at Blackbird Ventures.


This team is revolutionising cuisine by tapping into the vast biosphere of potential foods that humanity has been unable to sustainably farm. Through synthetic biology, they lift this limitation and pave the way for a third agricultural revolution, one that is ethical, abundant, and importantly, irresistibly delicious.


Since our last episode with Vow, they have more than doubled in team size and have continued to crush the technical challenges before them with blistering speed.


Listen in to today’s show to hear how George and Tim are building a dream team of technical and non-technical talent, their fresh approach to product building, and how the future of cultured meats is developing.


“For us this is going to be about connecting the depths of biology with the depths of food science, to make foods that outpace anything that animal meats have in terms of their sensory and performance enhancing attributes.”


We also chat with Head of Operations Ellen to discover how Vow have approached technology to bring their team to new heights.


“How do we not just automate things, but how do we use technology to make people super humans?”


Finally, we’ll speak with Blackbird Partner Sam Wong to learn how she’s thinking about the future of food, what she’s most excited about with Vow, and how her investment thesis has evolved in light of this.


Head to Vow's jobs board to see the open roles below:

https://www.vowfood.com/careers

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