David Lee: Impossible Foods requires no new tech leaps for price parity
David Lee · a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat' · Jan 2, 2019 · at 17:15
David Lee, COO and CFO of Impossible Foods, discusses manufacturing scale and technological readiness during an a16z panel on alternative protein innovation.
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“We don't have to make any more leaps in technology to get there.”
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