Ryan Hunt is co-founder and COO of Shloop Inc. https://shloop.it/ Ryan is a scientist and technology entrepreneur. Ryan has co-founded multiple companies, including ALGIX, LLC, which built the first algae plastic compounding facility in Mississippi, producing industrial micro-algae and commercial algae-based products.
The Bloom Story
https://www.bloommaterials.com/the-bloom-story/
Episode Time Stamps
Shloop Introduction (1:00)
Algix and BLOOM (2:00)
Vertically integrated supply chain (4:15)
Overseas production trends (5:45)
COVID's impact on supply chain (6:30)
Benefits on controlling entire supply chain (7:45)
ESG explained (9:30)
Challenges of auditing production factories (12:30)
Lifecycle Assessment (13:00)
Strength of factories overseas (15:45)
China's economic approach (18:00)
How do you compete with China? (20:30)
3DTI (24:45)
Why Shloop located in Meridian, MS (28:00)
How are startups funded initially? (34:00)
Angel investors (36:30)
Why algae? (39:00)
How and when are carbon emissions measured? (42:00)
Can you burn algae? (45:00)
Was product design new for Ryan? (48:00)
What is the "shoe loop"? (53:30)
Why sustainability is important to Ryan (56:15)
What is the future of algae? (58:00)
Algae blooms (1:00:00)
What are the future plans for Shloop? (1:03:00)
Who is Shloop's primary customer? (1:06:00)
Who actually performs product design? (1:11:00)
How do you manage scaling up? (1:15:00)
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