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Future Optimist

Oct 28, 2022

Phoebe Gardner is the co-founder and CEO of Bardee, a truly novel solution to climate change.

Well have ya heard of composting? It’s a neat idea to take food waste that would otherwise generate methane gas in landfills and repurpose it for fertilizer. The trouble is, it takes a long time to do it.

Bardee has taken...


Oct 25, 2022

Andre Menezes is the Co-Founder & CEO of Next Gen Foods. 

Andre broke a record for plant-based meat companies when his company TiNDLE raised $100 million in Series A funding. 

Tindle makes a plant-based chicken alternative that’s sold around the world and championed by world-class chefs and fast-food chains alike.


Oct 21, 2022

Kaylin Marcotte is the CEO and founder of JIGGY Puzzles—sustainable, artistic, bespoke jigsaw puzzles sweeping the world.

Kaylin took her unlikely passion and turned it into a multi-million dollar business. 

What was her brilliant idea, that got her 500k in funding from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank? If you guessed...


Oct 18, 2022

Paul Evers is the Co-Founder & CEO of RIFF, America's first certified carbon-neutral energy drink.

Paul did some research and discovered a massive problem, 70% of the fruit that surrounds our beloved, sacred coffee beans goes to waste.

And this fruit? It’s a superfruit (if such a term exists) that also happens to be...


Oct 14, 2022

Hans de Neve is the CEO and founder of Carbyon—a groundbreaking company capturing excess CO2 from the air.

Today we discuss how going against conventional wisdom and the advice of his peers in the science community led to a breakthrough technology that could help us pull carbon from the air and reverse climate change.