Add new company: Soylent
jacobmarble opened this issue · 1 comments
jacobmarble commented
Company Name?
Soylent
What's the company main business today?
Meal replacement, nutrition
What did the company do in the early days?
Inexpensive cell phone towers. They received $170,000 from YCombinator.
What caused the company to pivot?
Cell phone towers were too hard to break into, the founders ran out of money, but still had to eat, so they played around with a meal replacement formula, and invented "Soylent".
Source?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/12/the-end-of-food
fikrikarim commented
Nice summary! Added. That's a pretty cool story. Thanks a lot!