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Season 2 — Episode 29 May 08, 2019

Beyond Meat, and Facebook’s Pivot to Privacy

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.

For interested listeners:

• “How much does animal agriculture and eating meat contribute to global warming?”

Some recent picks:

• “The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care” (Larissa MacFarquhar, in The New Yorker)
• @BryanDruzin (Twitter account)
• Knock Down the House (Netflix documentary)
• Sec.gov (to download S-1s)
• Billy Eilish
• #MidtownUniform
• Eater.com
• Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting (Emily Oster)

You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.