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Maria Barrera,
Clayful
Scale the Bright Spots
Startups can address important mental health problems, but maintaining mental health in startup culture is challenging.
Patrick Brown, founder and CEO of Impossible Foods, maker of the plant-based “Impossible Burger,” talks about how meat production is essentially a “technology problem,” where the way we currently create beef – with cows – is fundamentally limited and unsustainable. “You don’t love meat because it’s made from animals, you love it in spite of the fact that it’s made from animals,” says Brown, previously a professor of biochemistry at Stanford.