Flicker User Marco VerchIn a season of a roller coaster technology IPOs, one of the standout success stories has been pioneering alternative meat startup, Beyond Meat. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. On the benefits of doing world-class basic research with universities for solving social problems through the private sectorBrown emphatically endorsed the benefits of government investment in research universities, which he believes allowed a start up like his to do best-in-class innovation without a big research division. In the early 2010's, Brown got rejected from Whole Foods and admits it's because the product wasn't good enough. “You're going to build meat right from plants?” No, you have to explain that you're actually going to try to rebuild meat.”On how for-profit meat alternatives can make the world betterBrown believes the IPO shows that it proves it is possible for one product to solve many social issues:

Source: Forbes May 26, 2019 18:45 UTC