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Elliot Roth is the founder of Spira, a company that engineers algae for sustainable, healthier, and cost-effective industry applications. He is passionate about using algae to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems, such as the use of artificial food dyes in food and beverage manufacturing.
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The Learning With Lowell show is a series for the everyday mammal. In this show we’ll learn about leadership, science, and people building their change into the world. The goal is to dig deeply into people who most of us wouldn’t normally ever get to hear. The Host of the show – Lowell Thompson- is a lifelong autodidact, serial problem solver, and founder of startups.
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Timestamp
00:00 Intro /Teaser
00:30 Spria update
02:20 5 years in business
03:44 Highs/lows
07:00 Pressure cooker / renaissance
08:30 Algae diet
09:00 Business structure for innovation, biomanufacturing, etc
11:20 Petrochemical vs algae
12:30 Why Algae over other organisms / 4th industrial revolution
16:00 Functionality of biobased materials / Algae
20:30 Decentralized biomanufacturing
22:30 Algae four Ps life cycle
25:40 Machine Learning, Servers, and engineering process
30:15 Big expenses in biomanufacturing
32:30 Biomanufacturing design to displace petrochemicals
34:30 Margins
36:20 Scaling to $1 million a month
40:40 Problems with Cellular agriculture trying to be average
43:20 Financing with partnering
46:30 Ideal investors / team needs
49:40 Equity after a fund ends
51:00 VR, AI, Blockchain play / regulatory opportunities
52:55 Middle east food security
56:30 McDonalds models / hiring team structures
59:00 Post apocalypse and rebuilding society
01:04:00 Gold from water
01:06:16 Biopunk
01:06:55 Books to recommend
01:10:40 Andy Weir / science fiction writing
01:12:55 Liver King and Mr. Algae / branding
01:14:10 Amount of money raising
01:15:20 Different products of algae
01:16:30 Staying up to date with
01:17:25 Elon musk vs Mark Zuckerberg