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The Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast
Stanford University
A $2T Market, Inefficient Cows, & Great Culture with Impossible Foods Founder Pat Brown & Nick Halla
NOV 20, 202541 MIN
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Description
"There's just no way I could not do it," says Impossible Foods founder and former CEO Pat Brown. "I felt like there's nothing more important I could do in terms of really having a positive impact on the world."
Brown is also an active professor emeritus of biochemistry at Stanford, and the co-founder of the Carbon Ranch in Arkansas. In this episode of the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast, Sam McClure talks with him and GigaClimate CEO Nick Halla — who was Impossible’s first employee — about:
- How Pat's sabbatical transformed into a mission to replace the world's most destructive technology, animal agriculture
- Mission-driven leadership and staying scrappy to sustain impact
- And how Pat and Nick are still turning scientific breakthroughs into market-ready innovation in their latest endeavors
Learn more:
Impossible Foods
The Carbon Ranch
GigaClimate
Pat Brown
Nick Halla
Sam McClure
Produced and edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm
This podcast was developed and published by Stanford Ecopreneurship

