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Blue man group, agriculture, feeding the world, algae, Egyptian stages of death, finding a fulfilling purpose in life, 100 day challenges, value of building in LA, how he got started and has been developing his company, book and resource recommendations, hiring people, FBI bioterrorism, and much much much more in this 2 hour interview with this weeks guest Elliot Roth CEO of Spira. This episode is one you won’t want to miss!
About Elliot
“Elliot is incredibly motivated to solve physiological needs using simple biological design.
After being trained as a University Innovation Fellow at the Stanford d.School, Elliot started multiple entrepreneurial projects including the DIYbio lab Indie Lab, TEDxVCU, and 6 failed startups. He graduated Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in Biomedical Engineering and spent five years consulting in product design and business strategy before starting Spira.
He is a Kairos Fellow, a Seasteading Ambassador, a member of the TFF NextGen Council, and sits on the Virginia Governor’s Council for Youth Entrepreneurship. Elliot has spoken at Synbiobeta, SXSW, and Thought for Food on social impact, synthetic biology and food.” Linkedin
About Spira
“Unless you’ve been living under a rock…
It’s becoming more apparent why we need to act now. These ingredients provide the proper nutrients that people need to thrive with the consideration of how we can help the environment thrive, too.
With less resources needed to grow our ingredients and a drastically increasing global population, we’re thinking multiple decades ahead.” Source
Products
It takes a lot of care to build strong relationships with farmers to get the very best spirulina from the start. No heavy metals, pesticides or contaminants.
Our farmers provide a consistent supply with consistent taste and consistent affordability. Did we mention its consistent?
A beautiful natural blue dye unlike anything else found in nature. This spirulina extract not only gives off a mesmerizing look when added to any food, but also contains healthy antioxidant properties. Learn about the benefits and how our technology maintains this majestic hue.
Spirulina Protein Isolate
The world needs new plant-powered protein. The issue is that most of it tastes like s*** or is difficult to use. We’ve been working on something better.” Source
Several issues with the apple podcast of this one. The last five-ish minutes the audio was very warbled and the episode length was noted as 34:01 but the audio kept going in the messed up way. Not sure if this is an issue with my phone/apple or the way it was uploaded but I have downloaded it off your website this morning and am excited to catch the last bit of this part 1 episode and the part 2 tomorrow.
I don’t know why we are getting these cut off problems, but I’ve re-uploaded last weeks episode, and checked this weeks to be sure there are correct and they are.
From now on I will add a heuristic to check time stamps and the end to make sure everything goes through.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention!
Also, Are you going to New Harvest Conference?
p.s. Here is part 2:
http://www.learningwithlowell.com/future-of-spirulina-questions-without-answers-and-hour-discussion-with-ceo-and-founder-elliot-roth-part-2/
Yes I will be at the New Harvest conference leaving my home for it in about 28 hours and am very excited. Would be exciting to talk with you if you will also be there?
Awesome. I’ll be there. See you there!