Beyond Meat, and Facebook’s Pivot to Privacy

After Hours

• Episode: Beyond Meat, and Facebook’s Pivot to Privacy
• Website: After Hours
• Feed URL: http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/harvardbusiness/after-hours
• Duration: 00:31:46
• Published: 2019-05-08 18:57

Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Mihir Desai talk about the Beyond Meat IPO and whether plant-based meat alternatives like Beyond Burger and Impossible Burger will become mass-market products. They then discuss Facebook’s announcement that it is pivoting to put greater emphasis on user privacy.

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You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected]. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.