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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: This narrative-driven podcast episode dramatizes the high-stakes rivalry between plant-based meat pioneers through vivid, cinematic reenactments of pivotal business moments, blending entrepreneurial ambition with environmental crusades in the food industry. Dramatic and suspenseful.
- The Format: A narrative story.
- The Key Players:
- Host: David Brown delivers authoritative narration, guiding listeners through the competitive saga with crisp storytelling.
- Key Figures: Pat Brown (Impossible Foods CEO, relentless scientist-founder); Ethan Brown (Beyond Meat founder, charismatic hustler); supporting voices like Bill Maris (Google Ventures), Chef David Chang, and beef lobbyists, portrayed via immersive voice acting that heightens the tension.
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What you'll learn
- 1 **(00:10) Google Ventures Buyout Attempt**
- 2 **(05:05) Episode Intro: Business Wars Episode 2 - Flame Broil**
- 3 **(06:22) Pat Brown's TEDMED Debut (2015)**
- 4 **(08:53) Beef Industry Counterstrike Warning (March 2016)**
- 5 **(11:39) Beyond Meat Secures Whole Foods Meat Case (April 2016)**
- 6 **(16:22) Impossible Burger Restaurant Launch (July 2016)**
- 7 **(19:38) UN Champions of the Earth Award (2018)**
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Show Notes
It’s 2016 and both Pat Brown’s Impossible Foods and Ethan Brown’s Beyond Meat are cooking up plant-based burgers for mass consumption. Ethan tries to woo Whole Foods executives to carry his Beyond Burger in their stores from coast-to-coast. Pat’s taking a different route. He’s asking celebrity chefs to put his Impossible Burger — a plant-based meat that bleeds — on their menus. Soon enough, fake meat gets truly famous. But as Beyond Meat tries to cash in on Wall Street and as Impossible Foods gets its patties into Burger King, meat-raising ranchers in America’s heartland are on the attack.Â
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