Today's guest is Philip Behn, CEO of Imperfect Foods.
In today’s episode, we cover:
- What is Imperfect Foods and its mission
- Imperfect Foods’ achievements in terms of customers-served and food waste recovered
- The company’s origin story
- Philip’s journey in food and how he joined Imperfect Foods
- What he learned during his stints at McKinsey and Walmart
- Imperfect Foods’ value proposition
- The landscape of the food waste problem
- How the resources spent on food waste has compounding effects
- The artificial standards of produce “beauty” that lead to some food waste
- How Imperfect Foods’ mission is aligned with addressing climate change
- Why there’s controversy with Imperfect Foods’ business
- Imperfect Foods’ current and future portfolio of offerings
- The specific overlap between food waste and climate change
- The role of government in addressing climate change
- Philip’s perspective on carbon offsets
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