The S2G Podcast

This is the S2G Podcast, where we talk to business leaders, investors, policymakers, and thought leaders who have a transformative vision for the future. We’ll explore how their experiences and perspectives offer lessons into scaling the food, agriculture, oceans, and energy transitions.

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Creative Capital to Fund the Transition with Andrea Woodside and Marisa Sweeney

To celebrate International Women's Day we're shining the spotlight on our special ops team. For the past two years, our all-female Special Ops team has been deploying flexible non-dilutive financing to companies trying to reach that next stage of scale. S2G's Andrea Woodside and Marisa Sweeney break down what a special opportunity is, the role this type of funding plays in today's funding environment, and who should reach out to them (any asset-oriented climate company) and when (as soon as poss...

Mar 07, 2024•35 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Reflections on Food as Health, Cultivated Protein, and Supply Chains

Last year, we put out a report entitled, "trends shaping the future of food in 2023." A year later, we wanted to check in with some of our team members who weighed in on the report to get their take on how these trends are evolving into 2024. In the last episode, we dove into our agtech trends, and in this episode, we'll look at some of the supply chain and foodtech trends. We talk to Dan Ripma about food as health, Kate Danaher about supply chain resilience, and Larsen Mettler about cultivated ...

Feb 29, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 4

The Path to Operational Success with Chris Gladwin and Mike Evans

In this episode, Chuck Templeton is joined by fellow Chicago entrepreneurs and old friends Chris Gladwin and Mike Evans for a captivating conversation about scaling their respective companies for exit. Chris founded and sold CleverSafe and is currently the Founder and CEO of Ocient, a data analytics platform for the world's biggest data sets. Mike is the Founder of Grubhub and now the Founder of Fixer, a home maintenance membership company. Chris and Mike compare their customer acquisition exper...

Feb 22, 2024•47 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Reflections on AgTech: Robotics, Digitization, and Alternative Inputs

Last year, we published a report entitled, "Trends Shaping the Future of Food in 2023." It turns out 2023 was quite the year with many market, geopolitical, and policy twists and turns. In this episode, we check in with S2G team members who contributed to the report to get their take on how these trends evolved in 2023 and into 2024. We interview Arthur Chow about robotics, Cristina Rohr about digital agtech, and Matt Walker about alternative crop inputs. Key Takeaways: Agricultural Robotics : A...

Feb 15, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 2

OpenTable’s Journey to Scalability with Chuck Templeton

We’re kicking off the revamped S2G podcast series with a deep dive into the art of scaling with Chuck Templeton, S2G senior managing director and entrepreneur known for founding OpenTable and guiding startups like Grubhub and Braintree. In this episode, Chuck imparts crucial wisdom on overcoming early adoption hurdles, refining sales processes, and remaining steadfastly customer-centric for scalable growth. He shares his 'just start' philosophy to innovate solutions and build antifragile structu...

Feb 08, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Introducing: The S2G Podcast

On this podcast, we’re talking to business leaders, investors, policymakers, and thought leaders who have a transformative vision for the future. We’ll explore how their experiences and perspectives offer lessons into scaling the food, agriculture, oceans, and energy transitions. This content is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal, business, tax or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security, and is not directed at any investor or potential inve...

Jan 25, 2024•2 min0

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