While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317

Let me drink a hot cup of tea. Sho. That didn't get picked up on the mic, did it? How's it going, Sho? You okay?

Okay, everybody, welcome back to this week in Startups in Japan. It's great, great to be back in my favorite uh city in all the world, uh, after my hometown of New York, my new hometown of Austin, that's Tokyo. Man, I love coming here. It's always so inspiring. If you're a founder, if you're an investor and you haven't come to Japan, I highly recommend coming because you get to see people building and working with extreme pride and trying to get better at building their product or service every day of their life.

It's called Kaizen, is the art of constant improvement. The founders here in our second cohort of Founder University. have been incredible. I was telling my team, the first cohort, we had so many great companies, but very raw. We were just getting started.

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