Wild Earth: Ryan Bethencourt

Why dogs should be vegans, euthanasia drugs in pet food, the biohacker movement, life extension, Mark Cuban, psychedelics, bio-fabricated nipples, and so much more!

Sep 28, 2021

Fellow Climate Warriors,

This episode I drink 🇨🇺 Cuba Libres with Ryan Bethencourt, Co-founder and CEO of Wild Earth.

Join us as we discuss why dogs should be vegans, euthanasia drugs in pet food, the biohacker movement, life extension, Mark Cuban, launching and scaling IndieBio, how to pitch billionaires, psychedelics, bio-fabricated nipples, storing digital data in DNA, how food is leading the way in bio-innovation, and so much more!

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📝 Show Notes Below👇

🎧 New podcast episode:

Ryan Bethencourt, Co-founder and CEO of Wild Earth

“The more I looked into it, the more broken the pet food industry was. It accounts for 25-30% of meat consumed in the U.S...it just makes no sense because we can make protein out of yeast, out of fungi, out of plants...and so I’m like, somebody needs to start this company.” -Ryan Bethencourt, Co-founder and CEO of Wild Earth.

Ryan Bethencourt (@ryanbethencourt) is a co-founder and CEO at Wild Earth (@wildearthpets), bringing years of experience in leading, building and advising high-growth food and biotechnology companies. Ryan is a biotech entrepreneur, investor, and one of the founders of the biohacker movement. He’s a co-founder, former Program Director, and Venture Partner at IndieBio (@indbio) and has invested in over 110 early stage biotech startups and served as the head of life sciences at the XPRIZE Foundation (@xprize). As an ethical vegan, Ryan is passionate about the future of biology as a technology, applied across all industries to solve some of humanity’s most intractable problems. Ryan fosters dogs for Rocket Dog Rescue and is passionate about mindfulness, meditation, and mentoring.

🍹 What we drank during the episode: 🇨🇺 Cuba Libres

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🥃 September Bay Area Climate Tech Cocktails Happy HourS:

Thursday, September 30th, 5:30-7:30pm at Cell Valley Labs in Berkeley to celebrate the release of Ryan Bethencourt’s, Co-founder and CEO of Wild Earth, Climate Tech Cocktails Episode. The happy hours will include a guided tour of Cell Valley Labs and samples of foods from cool companies like Climax Foods. RSVP coming soon!

Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:

🐣 Bacardi

🐣 Boylan Bottling

🐣 Pfizer

🐣 Genentech

🐣 Amgen

🐣 Johnson & Johnson

🐣 Gilead

🐣 IQVIA

🐣 Parexel

🐣 SENS Foundation

🐣 Buck Institute