Fellow Climate Warriors,

This episode I drink Perfect Day-concocted lactose-free 🥃 whiskey sours with Ryan Pandya, Co-founder and CEO of Perfect Day. 

Join us as we discuss our 🦠 microbe-based dairy future, 💰 the path to raising $700MM+, what it’s like having Bob Iger on your board, challenges later-stage startups face, the difference between dairy from a 🐮 cow, 🌱 plants, 🍄 microbes, and cells and oh so much more!!

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📝  Show Notes Below👇

🎧 New podcast episode:

Ryan Pandya, Co-founder and CEO of Perfect Day on how nobody was working on microbe based dairy in 2014:

“I will live and die never again having an idea that you can’t find on the internet.”  -Ryan Pandya, Co-founder and CEO of Perfect Day

@Ryan Pandya, Co-founder and CEO of @Perfect Day, a consumer biology company on a mission to create a kinder, greener tomorrow by developing new ways to make the foods you love today — starting in the dairy aisle. Ryan, in partnership with co-founder Perumal Gandhi, leads a diverse team of scientists, engineers, chefs, food developers, and storytellers who are working in harmony to make their dream of animal-free dairy a reality.  Perfect Day, named one of TIME’s 2020 Best Inventions, is currently pioneering a new category in the dairy market by using fermentation to create proprietary “flora-made” dairy protein, without a single cow. Named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in 2019, Ryan is committed to making delicious, nutritious food that does less damage to our planet.

🥃 What we drank during the episode: Perfect Day-concocted dairy-free, lactose-free whiskey sours 

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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:

🐣New Harvest

🐣Soylent

🐣Modern Meadow

🐣Humboldt Fog

🐣Horizons Ventures

🐣Commonwealth Fusion Systems

🐣Brave Robot

🐣Cool Haus

🐣Disney

🐣Wildtype Foods

People/places/things mentioned during the episode

🧠Isha Datar

🧠Rob Reinhart

🧠Bob Iger

🧠Andras Forgacs

🧠Perumal Gandhi

🧠Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences

🧠Bob Mumgaard

🧠Climate Hero Cake Mix

🧠The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of Walt Disney Company

🧠Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

🧠Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

🧠11/22/63

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[0:00] Intro

[3:40] Drink of the show

[7:30] Meeting at SXSW Eco

[9:00] Perfect Day early days

[13:00] What inspired them to launch Perfect Day

[19:30] Difference between animal, plant, microbe and cell based dairy

[26:30] Health benefits of Perfect Day’s dairy

[28:20] How Perfect Day produces its protein

[33:30] Environmental benefits of Perfect Day’s product

[35:00] Nutrients in Perfect Day’s Product

[37:00] Perfect Day’s first investor

[40:30] Challenges of a later-stage startup and value of having a co-founder

[43:30] Why ice cream is Perfect Day’s first product

[46:30] Replacing cream cheese and sliced cheese

[50:30] Cake mix

[52:30] What is it like to be Bob Iger at Disney? 

[57:00] Perfect Day in 3 years

[1:01:00] 3 Books

[1:02:00] 3 Startups

[1:03:00] Outro

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