Here's how this 42-year-old CEO went from $3,000 in savings to creating a $1.2 billion food startup. (via CNBCMakeIt)
from investors including Bill Gates, Marc Benioff, and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital.
Tetrick says he's not interested in resting on those laurels. Here's how he built a billion-dollar startup pitching plant-based egg substitutes from scratch – and where he wants to go next.After graduating from the University of West Virginia, where he played football, Tetrick spent several years in sub-Saharan Africa working with children for social impact nonprofits. He read a lot, and found one book: "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid" by C. K.
He brought that idea to Balk, a childhood friend and vice president at The Humane Society, who convinced Tetrick that they should seek an alternative to chicken-laid eggs. They reasoned that it could disrupt a global agricultural industry that
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