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Friedberg: Plant-based meat companies function like luxury goods brands
“So what I've told people is that these businesses are like luxury goods brands. You know, you can buy a purse that carries your stuff, or you can buy a Louis Vuitton or Gucci purse and then feel good about carrying a Louis Vuitton or Gucci purse and be like, l…”
Friedberg: Climate tech scales through economic superiority, not planetary virtue
“Those technologies are not just about doing good for the planet. They're just better business sense. And what I mean by that is they make stuff that's cheaper and better than the traditional way of making stuff or doing stuff. And if it's cheaper, if it's a be…”
Friedberg: Replacing conventional meat requires cheaper, chemically identical alternatives
“The way to replace the solution is to make ground beef that's chemically identical, meaning it's the same product and it's made cheaper. And you just don't happen to use animals.”
Friedberg: 90% to 95% chance scalable fusion exists within two decades
“I would say there's probably a 90 plus percent chance or 95% chance that we will have scalable fusion energy in the next decade or two”
Friedberg: Forecasts Project 90% of Global Population in Africa and South Asia by 2100
“There's about 95% of the world's people at the end of the century, based on recent population forecasts, call it 90% of people, that will live in Africa and South Asia, ok? 10% of the people will live elsewhere.”
Friedberg: Latin American farmers make nearly 10x US farmer operating margins
“They make nearly 10 times as much profit in terms of their margin, their operating margin, as a U.S. Farmer.”
Friedberg: Industrial renewables cost under 3¢/kWh vs 10-15¢ for coal and gas
“We're seeing industrial scale renewable energy like solar and wind cost less now than traditional petrochemical driven energy electricity production. You know, As low as under three cents a kilowatt hour. And, you know we're typically looking at about 10 to 15…”
Friedberg: Beef production requires 30 calories of energy per calorie produced
“Today it takes 30 units of energy to make a unit of beef. Ok, so if you measure beef in terms of calories, to make one calorie of beef takes about 30 calories of energy across the whole system.”
Friedberg: SPAC market will not recover quickly and will filter to profitable businesses
“I don't think that there's going to be a quick return to SPAC land anytime soon. In fact, I think it'll only filter out to businesses like what we're doing with Lavoro, profitable, scaled, growing, you know, kind of where you can measure it on its financial re…”
Friedberg: Roughly 65% of post-2020 IPO/SPAC companies trade below private capital raised
“65%, roughly, of companies that went public since twenty-twenty, whether that's through SPAC or IPO, 65% are trading below the total cash they raised as a private company, as a tech, as a, by VCs. So they're so low in value in aggregate that they're actually w…”
Friedberg: Beyond Meat and Impossible cost 2x to 4x conventional beef
“So ground beef, you know, three bucks a pound roughly. Beyond Meat, Impossible, or like two to three to four times that price.”
Friedberg: Latin America exports twice as many calories as the US
“And Latin America as a region exports twice as many calories as the U.S.”