Rob Reinhart

12 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Rob Reinhart · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Rhinehart: Soylent is developing a therapeutic food paste for $1 daily
“One thing we are working on is what's called an RUTF, ready to use therapeutic food, which is kind of like a paste. So it's between the powder and the drink so that it is ready to consume, but it's cheaper to ship because it doesn't have as high moisture conte…”
Rob Reinhart Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:45 a16z Podcast | The Future of Food
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rhinehart: Soylent powder costs under two dollars per 500-calorie meal
“The powder is less than two dollars per meal. This is a full meal, 500 calories. The bottle is around, is two dollars and 50 cents for 400 calories.”
Rob Reinhart Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:39 a16z Podcast | The Future of Food
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Rhinehart: Enough food is currently produced to feed the world twice over
“So yeah, there's plenty of food is produced to feed the world twice over.”
Rob Reinhart Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:35 a16z Podcast | The Future of Food
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Insight
Rhinehart: Returning to ancestral farming romanticizes a much harder past
“Maybe they think that if we go back to being farmers, things are going to be easier, but our ancestors didn't have it very easy, and I think it's largely a romanticization of the past, and that we have, we live in a very beautiful more peaceful world than we h…”
Rob Reinhart Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:54 a16z Podcast | The Future of Food
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rhinehart: Countertop photobioreactors could eventually produce food for individual homes
“I think we could have the Mr. Soylent sits on your counter, or you put it on your porch, and it gets sunlight, or you have your solar panel, which powers the LEDs, and you know, the fundamentals, there's certainly no physical limit that would make this impossi…”
Rob Reinhart Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:08 a16z Podcast | The Future of Food
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Rhinehart: Ready-to-drink Soylent has a one-year unrefrigerated shelf life
“To have it sit on the shelf to have a shelf life of over a year and not require refrigeration.”
Rob Reinhart Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:25 a16z Podcast | The Future of Food
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Supported
Rhinehart: Modern crops like corn and watermelons are not strictly natural
“If you look at the crops we have today, I mean, calling them natural is just you know, a misunderstanding. I mean, corn is not supposed to be yellow. You know, pumpkins are supposed to be this big. Watermelons aren't supposed to be this big. You know, soy has …”
Rob Reinhart Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:10 a16z Podcast | The Future of Food
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Held up
Rhinehart: Soylent aims to lower its powder cost to $5 daily
“Yes, that's eight dollars a day on the powder, and I'm trying to get that down to five dollars a day.”
Rob Reinhart Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:53 a16z Podcast | The Future of Food
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Reinhart: Single-celled organisms and synthetic flavors will produce synthetic meat and nutrients
“So I think we're going to use single-celled organisms to produce the same proteins and fats and carbohydrates that we used to wait an entire growing season for, that we can have organisms that double within hours, and I think we can use, ah, the front-end tech…”
Rob Reinhart Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:30 a16z Podcast | The Future of... You
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Reinhart: Soylent conducted a clinical study on Soylent consumption for Nature publication
“We run a peer-reviewed study it'll be published later this year in a nature journal, using a controlled study, studying the effects of tolerability of a People living on Soylent and measuring a lot of biomarkers, vitamin, mineral nutrition, and otherwise, and,…”
Rob Reinhart Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:10 a16z Podcast | The Future of... You
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Reinhart: Sustainable products must offer direct consumer benefits like lower cost
“Asking someone to pay more for a more sustainable product is, is a long shot. You know, most of the market is probably not going to be up for that. I think you have to confer some benefit directly to the consumer, but I think that's entirely possible because i…”
Rob Reinhart Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:07 a16z Podcast | The Future of... You
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Reinhart: Food will be grown in steel vats instead of agricultural fields
“I think that a lot of food is going to be grown in giant steel vats rather than fields, but that means that we're never going to run out of arable land, because all you really need to make food is sunlight and air and water.”
Rob Reinhart Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:59 a16z Podcast | The Future of... You
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