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Mares: Exercise and sleep treat chronic conditions better than pharmaceuticals
“If you look at studies, they show that exercise, sleep supplements, all these things actually work better for treating many chronic conditions than, you know, SSRIs or any such sort of other like pharmaceutical intervention.”
Mares: The US food system is poisonous to weak-willed Americans
“The American food system is basically poisonous to weak willed people like most Americans.”
Mares: Average American food is 40% to 70% less nutrient dense than 50 years ago
“Like, you know, the average American's food is something like between 40 and 70% less nutrient dense than it was even just 50 years ago.”
Mares: Building an AI startup outside San Francisco is a bad idea
“The reality is I think that like in SF, if you're building an AI company and you're not an SF right now, it's just, it just seems like a bad idea. Like you should just move to the place where all the AI stuff is, is happening outside of that though.”
Mares: Austin is a much better hub for health and defense tech than SF
“I mean, I think that you could make a pretty compelling argument that Austin is a way better place to build a health company, a defense tech company, like any number of these sort of hard tech or other companies that You know, the Bay doesn't necessarily have …”
Mares: Atrazine exposure turns 40% of male frogs into fertile females
“And provably, when you expose atrazine, expose male frogs to atrazine, like four out of 10 of them become female frogs to the point where they can bear offspring.”
Mares: Environmental toxins will be the biggest trend of the next decade
“I think environmental toxins are going to be the biggest trend of the next decade. And we just don't even understand or begin to understand how bad a lot of these things are.”
Mares: Keto Lost Staying Power Because People Ate Low-Quality High-Fat Foods
“And this is why things like keto didn't have necessarily the staying power where people were like, oh, that means I can buy dog shit cheese and dip it in butter and just like max out on fat content and not eat any, like anything healthy.”
Justin Mares: TruMed raised $36M led by Andreessen Horowitz
“The big news is that we actually closed a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Yeah, so we raised thirty six million dollars led by Andreessen Horowitz.”
Mares: Engaging founders pre-launch yields angel pricing advantages
“If you can play some role in the journey that your friends have, or like other people, you know, have, In going from, should I start a thing to I'm doing this thing? Oftentimes you have pricing advantage of that, but you're also like part of the journey and pa…”
Mares: Kettle & Fire Has Stopped Hiring Copywriters and Ad Creators
“For Kettle and Fire specifically, we are not hiring like ad creators. We're not hiring copywriters. Like there was this whole slew of marketing adjacent people that we previously, you know, had to hire. We had a copywriter for the first like five and a half ye…”
Mares: Atrazine is the third most used US pesticide and banned elsewhere
“Our third most popular pesticide is called atrazine. Just to give an example, it's banned in the EU, banned in Mexico banned in Canada. Third most popular pesticide in the US.”
Mares: Spinach loses 70% to 90% of nutrient density during 12-day transit
“Like if you grow, you know, spinach in California, package it, put it on average, like a 12 day kind of like supply, put it through the supply chain. It gets to where you're eating at 12 days later. In that 12 day period, that spinach is going to lose like rou…”