Mike Alfred & Zume's Alex Garden on crypto, pizza and the future of humanity

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Mike Alfred & Zume's Alex Garden on crypto, pizza and the future of humanity
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 01:15:56
• Published: 2022-07-08 04:00

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on investor Mike Alfred to talk about the crypto meltdown (8:50), why this is different than the 2008 financial crisis (12:20), why more pain is coming (18:00), why he was worried about Celsius and BlockFi (22:10), and what the collapse means for the economy (28:05). THEN: Alex Garden of Zume comes on to talk about the food supply chain (32:20), alighting on pizza (37:35), replacing plastic with compostable packaging (41:50), the problem with plastic (45:05), how soggy pizza led to a pivot (51:00), scaling up (56:50), days that end in “why?” (1:06:50), and the painful decisions required to survive (1:08:50).

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