#014 - Chemical engineering to oat-based cheese with Sarah Qian

Sarah Qian

Sarah is the founder of Compassion Creamery, an oat based cream cheese startup.

In this episode we discuss

• Sarah’s journey from studying chemical engineering to founding Compassion Creamery

• The challenges she has faced in scaling up her operations

• The ways physical-based startups differ from software-based startups

• Sarah’s advice for other engineers interested in startups

• How engineers can contribute to alternative proteins and solving challenges in food systems change

Sarah Qian

• Compassion Creamery

• https://compassioncreamery.com.au/

  1. https://www.instagram.com/compassion.creamery/?hl=en

Timestamps

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:00 Sarah
00:03:07 Sarah's journey
00:13:46 Compassion creamery
00:15:49 Solving hard problems
00:27:09 Sarah's day to day
00:31:40 Australian Alternative Protein landscape
00:38:08 How engineers can contribute to alternative proteins
00:43:23 Advice for other engineers  
00:56:27 Valuable engineering skills
01:00:40 "Should I start a startup?"
01:06:04 Resource suggestions
01:07:40 What do you wish you had invented?
01:12:56 Outro