Q were, uh, well living, I think in the UK at the time, you're originally from Croatia and you had graduated, you'd done a PhD at Cambridge in, um, molecular biology. You get this sort of Unsolicited note on LinkedIn from this guy in New Zealand saying, hey, I want to create a cell-based ag company, like make alternative animal products. What did you think when you got that, that message?
A Um, I know it sounds crazy, and it was actually kind of crazy, but that's exactly what happened. And, um, you know, it's important to understand where I was at the time in my life. Um, I was working in London, uh, in consulting, in business, in a very different field. I left academia by that point, and in this moment in time, I felt like I had no purpose anymore, and I wanted to find that purpose again. And so, I was at a time when Matt contacted me on a really strong personal journey of, um, reading endlessly, you know, international, uh, climate reports. Um, I was really obsessed actually with, um, understanding food problems, climate problems, food waste, and waste problems. And so when Matt contacted me, I started to apply for jobs in this field. Um, but not thinking of a startup anymore, you know, going more for policy government. And so It was out of a blue message. It was so different, and it said something like, you know, I'm starting a clean dairy company. I didn't even know what clean dairy meant. I had to Google it, and it just was different. It caught my attention. There was this photo of a guy jumping out of plane with a parachute. Matt was doing, like, skydiving.
AI assessment note: “I didn't even know what clean dairy meant. I had to Google it”