Corn
topic on 7 shows · 10 statements across 9 episodes
My First Million 
Capital Allocators 
the Green Blueprint 
How I Built This 
the a16z Podcast 
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10 statements about Corn, every show
Perret: Late-stage fintech IPOs like Klarna and Chime are coming soon
“You're about to see a couple of IPOs. So corn is coming soon. We think we've heard that China's coming soon and I've heard that a bunch of others are coming soon.”
Suplicy: Food agriculture is broken by over-focusing on corn, soy, and wheat
“We have kind of a broken system in a way where most of the efforts go into growing corn, soy, and wheat. That is not necessarily good for people or the environment.”
Rudolph: Chickpea pasta manufacturing requires far more precision than corn or rice
“Making chickpea pasta is really hard. You have to be very precise in a way that you don't need to be with corn or rice”
Van Trump: US faces over two-billion-bushel corn supply glut
“We have a pretty burdensome supply of corn. We're over two billion bushel supply of corn. You know, we got about five hundred million bushel supply of beans coming down the pipe.”
Haspel: Corn and soy dominate due to crop efficiency, not subsidies
“There's a reason that soy and corn came to dominate the landscape, and it's not because of subsidies. It's because corn is the most efficient cereal grass, and soy is the most efficient leg.”
Haspel: Soy Yields Six Million Calories Per Acre, Tripling Other Legumes
“So soy, here in the United States, we can grow about six million calories per acre, and that's less than half of what corn can do, because protein has a lot of plant overhead, so any protein-rich plant is going to generate fewer calories per acre than a crop t…”
Friedberg: Corn is trading at $7.60 per bushel, up from $3.50
“Today, corn, I think it's trading at seven 60 a bushel. That hasn't happened, guys, I can't tell you in how long. This was a commodity that was trading at three 50 a few months ago.”
Jennifer Martin: 1990s gluten-free products used feed corn causing perceived allergies
“And a lot of the reason I couldn't eat corn was because at that time, the gluten-free products were all made with really, really bad corn, you know, like not corn that you're supposed to be eating, like it was like feed corn that basically we're eating, and so…”
Girotto: Northern Minnesota Shifts from Barley to Higher-Yielding Corn-Soybean Rotations
“We were there because of the long-term global warming trend that we see, and that's traditionally been a small grains world, like barley, sometimes soybeans, and it's with the different shorter duration hybrids for things like corn, You're able to actually get…”
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 …”