Lee: Early food startups must hire top lobbying firms to compete
David Lee · a16z Podcast | Reinventing Food · Jan 2, 2019 · at 15:52
David Lee, CFO and COO of Impossible Foods, shares advice at the a16z Summit on how food tech startups must prepare for opposition from established agricultural lobbies.
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“You have to have the best lobbying group on your payroll as a young pre-revenue startup if you want to compete.”
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