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Uma Valeti

Founder and CEO, UPSIDE Foods. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Uma Valeti is the founder and CEO of UPSIDE Foods, formerly known as Memphis Meats. A former Mayo Clinic cardiologist, he co-founded the company in 2015 to produce cultivated meat directly from animal cells.

What they said8 Shows1

Everything Uma Valeti said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Valeti: Animal agriculture will be unimaginable in 10 to 20 years

“As we start thinking about 10 years out or 20 years out, I think it's going to be unimaginable that we were okay with enslaving billions of animals and doing food production despite the harm it was causing to the human health environment or the economic ineffi…”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:01 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

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Valeti: Memphis Meats products are indistinguishable from conventional meat

“But I can only talk about what we've seen so far, and from the meat that we've harvested so far, we've made things like meatballs and fajitas, and it's virtually indistinguishable from whether it comes from a grocery store or from a conventional meat market.”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:26 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

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Valeti: Cell-cultured meat products will reach the market within five years

“Our goal is it's very realistic to have products on the market in the next five years.”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:13 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

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Valeti: Unlikely world will turn vegetarian or vegan soon

“In any culture you think of, 90% of the world's population eats meat. So thinking that the world could become vegetarian or vegan in the near future, We believe that it's very unlikely.”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:34 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

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Valeti: Clean meat scaling requires no new downstream distribution tech

“We see the technology scaling up in a way that does not require any downstream innovation, because the whole distribution change for existing meat exists already.”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:37 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

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Valeti: Traditional meat bacteria comes from slaughterhouse fecal contamination

“The reason bacteria gets in there is because you're in the process of slaughter, there's fecal contamination, or when you have an animal not fully washed before slaughter, that's how E. Coli or salmonella get in there, and then they multiply because meat is fo…”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:25 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

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Valeti: Personalized food innovations will drive future gains in human longevity

“Think about the things that are coming in terms of longevity. People are living longer and longer Every year or every decade, despite not having any innovation in food at all, that's been an area that's been virtually untouched. Now think about what if you sta…”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:47 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

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Valeti: Memphis Meats uses self-renewing cells for cultured muscle tissue

“We do take cells that already are in areas that people enjoy eating, but we also have other cells, which can reproduce and self-renew themselves and become very high-quality muscle tissue.”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:37 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

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Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	Founder and CEO, UPSIDE Foods	1	8	100% 2/2	full record on the a16z Podcast →