Sarah Qian started an oat-based cream cheese company. We discuss the challenges she faced in scaling up operations, advice for other engineers interested in startups, and how engineers can contribute to solving challenges in food systems change.

Federico Speziali is the Co-founder of High Impact Professionals. We discuss how working professionals can increase their impact through donations, using their skills, or promoting impactful initiatives in the workplace.

Arno Rohwedder is a social entrepreneur working in the agricultural sector in rural Tanzania. We discuss his inspiration for becoming a social entrepreneur, the challenges faced by social enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the difficulty of measuring impact.

Soroush Pour is an engineer and entrepreneur who, at the time of this recording, is on sabbatical from his role as head of Special Projects at Vow to investigate the safe and beneficial development of artificial general intelligence. We discuss the psychology and methods he employed in a year-long period of independent research in which he transitioned from the world of fintech to cultivated meat.

Jeffray is a Food Process engineer at New School Foods and a passionate advocate for the alternative protein industry. We discuss his journey from undergraduate mechanical engineering to working in the alternative protein industry and his advice for others interested in a similar path.