Shen Tong Shen Tong (Simplified Chinese: 沈彤; Hanyu Pinyin: Shěn Tóng) is an American impact investor, activist, and writer. He was a Chinese dissident who was exiled as one of the student leaders in the democracy movement at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Shen was one of the People of the Year in Newsweek 1989. and he became a media, software, social entrepreneur, and investor in the late 1990s.He founded business accelerators FoodFu tureCo in 2015 and Food-X in 2014, the latter of which is recognized by Fast Company as one of "The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Food He serves on the board of Food Tank.
As one of the original Tiananmen Square dissidents, Shen Tong, has incredible insight into the politics of China. How will relations with the west develop and is people's democracy still a possibility. We will also cover the future of food. Shen is one of the leading investors and thought leaders in the food technology space.