Ethan Brown initially envisioned building a plant-based McDonald's in his twenties
Ethan Brown · Live Episode! Beyond Meat: Ethan Brown · Feb 16, 2017 · at 6:58
Beyond Meat founder and CEO Ethan Brown discusses his early career ambitions and the initial concept that preceded founding his plant-based meat company.
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“In my sort of late twenties, I was thinking about this, and I wanted to create a plant-based McDonald's.”
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