Soylent

“A subtle but important thing that's happened in the last 20 years is the market of early adopters now is now very large. And so, and I just, like, look at it numerically, like, the number of total internet users in, like, 1999 was maybe fifty million people. A…”

“Soylent is not meant to replace the organic home-cooked meal with friends. It's meant to replace the, you know, the hamburger at McDonald's, which is just terrible for you.”

“We actually have heard from people that places like SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, I think, stocks the food for the ISS.”

“One example of this is the algae oil that is present in the products. So it's not it's not grown like a traditional crop in a field. It's grown in a large tank in a bioreactor with single cells.”

“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…”

“Going to the Soylent factory in LA in a few years is going, people are going to come from all over the world to see these giant blue glowing, glowing orbs.”

“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.”

“One really, one of the most popular use cases for soylent is people that hiking and doing other kinds of things like this, because it turns out right, the powder, carrying the powder in a backpack, it's the most efficient way to carry it's the lightest weight …”

“About half my calories, which is about the, I think it's about the average.”

“I have yet to meet somebody who does not like the ready-to-drink. I've given it to everyone who comes to my office, including entrepreneurs and reporters.”

“To have it sit on the shelf to have a shelf life of over a year and not require refrigeration.”

“The goal is, is total vertical integration. I think, in theory, we could make everything, including the bottle out of you know, out of microorganisms that have been engineered to produce these components far, far more efficiently. Than traditional processes.”

“Yes, that's eight dollars a day on the powder, and I'm trying to get that down to five dollars a day.”

“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…”

“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,…”

“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…”

“The next big thing is fungi is actually mushroom. We're putting a lot of research and investment dollars into, and partnerships in terms of how do we actually find that next sustainable protein source so that we can actually, again, have less impact on the env…”

“3D printing, like this led to my investment in Oculus and Coinbase really were both from that you know, from that thesis sort of VR, seeing the developers and the kind of, you know, Kickstarter community enthusiasm around, you know, when Palmer, Palmer Luckey …”