David Lee
CFO, WEBTOON Entertainment. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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David J. Lee is an executive who helped take WEBTOON Entertainment public on NASDAQ and oversees its subsidiary, Wattpad. He is widely recognized for his tenure as COO and CFO of Impossible Foods from 2015 to 2021, during which he raised over $1 billion and scaled commercial operations.
1shows
2appearances
16statements
7resolved
6supported
1contradicted
86%fully supported
Everything David Lee said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Lee: Future generations will be horrified that people ate animal meat
“One day, little kids will look at their parents, shocked and horrified, and say, I cannot believe you all used to eat meat, meat of dead animals.”
Lee: Blind taste tests show Impossible Burger matches beef for meat eaters
“We know empirically, tested blind versus a cow were as delicious to a meat eater.”
Lee: Animal farming lobby is much bigger than the NRA
“Animal farming, in my case, is arguably the most well-funded lobbying organization in the United States, much bigger than the NRA, by far.”
David Lee: Impossible Foods requires no new tech leaps for price parity
“We don't have to make any more leaps in technology to get there.”
David Lee: Animal farming emits as much greenhouse gas as all transportation
“Animal farming produces more greenhouse gases than almost any sector, the same as all forms of transportation combined, period.”
Lee: 75% of Impossible Foods consumers are actually meat eaters
“Three quarters of the people eat our product are meat eaters.”
David Lee: Impossible Burger uses 95% less land and 74% less water than beef
“Every time a meat eater picks our burger versus a burger from a cow, they save 95% of the land, they save 74% of the water, They produce an eighth of the greenhouse gases for the alternative.”
Lee: Early food startups must hire top lobbying firms to compete
“You have to have the best lobbying group on your payroll as a young pre-revenue startup if you want to compete.”
Lee: Impossible Burger reduces land, water, and greenhouse gas usage significantly
“If they begin to just substitute one burger from a cow for a delicious impossible burger, you'll save 95% of the land that's consumed to make a burger from a cow a quarter of the water an eighth of the greenhouse gases.”
Lee: Heme is the exact molecule responsible for red meat's flavor and color
“Heme is the exact same molecule in our product That makes a burger from a cow red, and more than the color, it is when you cook red meat from a cow, it's the flavor catalyst.”
Lee: Millennials are top ground beef consumers and driving food trends
“The millennial is the largest consumer in my business of ground beef, but they're also the ones that are setting trends, and the way they're setting them is not the way many of us mass marketers serve them.”
David Lee: 40% of ice-free land is used for animal farming
“40% of the ice-free land today is used in the production of animal farming.”
Lee: Food is emotional; logical arguments fail to shift consumer habits
“Food is unique. It's fundamentally an emotional experience. You cannot browbeat rationally any consumer to do, quote unquote, the rational or correct thing. You gotta make people crave your product.”
Lee: Radical transparency in food origins will arrive within ten years
“Yeah, I think that in five, 10 years, you're going to find a radical transparency on the origin of food, The impact it has beyond the person who consumes it, but on the environment. And as well, you know, what it means, what statement food brands mean to the c…”
Lee: Millennials Are the Largest Demographic of US Burger Consumers
“The millennial who is determining food trends, who uses social media, who, by the way, is the largest consumer of burgers in the US”
Lee: Impossible Foods uses repurposed potato protein for bind and caramelization
“Potato has a protein that's thrown away today in the processing of starch. Well, we found that that particular protein is really great at creating that bind and that caramelization on a burger when you put it on a flat top grill”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens David's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 a16zLEDGER | CFO, WEBTOON Entertainment | 2 | 16 | 86% 6/7 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |