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植物肉企业CEO:为了应对气候变化投身商业

植物肉企业CEO:为了应对气候变化投身商业

MCKENNA MOORE 2020-11-29
伊森•布朗发现气候变化是全球面临的最大问题,而政府和非营利部门的改革步伐太慢了。

Beyond Meat公司CEO伊森•布朗在上大学时并不清楚自己的人生目标是什么。但在与父亲交流之后,他发现全球面临的最大问题是气候变化,如果环境不稳定,音乐家或医生所做的贡献都会被削弱。

虽然他明确了他要解决的问题,但却苦于找不到最好的解决方法。他最初在全国州长协会促进最佳实践中心(National Governors Association Center for Best Practices)工作,后又到一家氢燃料电池公司巴拉德动力系统有限公司(Ballard Power Systems)工作。

布朗在最新一期《下一代领导力》(Leadership Next)节目中说:“在此期间,我了解了如何应对全球问题,以及如果你要用技术解决这些问题,你需要哪些基础设施。”

他最终发现政府和非营利部门的改革步伐太慢了。与此同时,多年来,他了解到牲畜及其在气候变化、自然资源利用和保护方面的作用,以及动物蛋白在对抗各种人类疾病(包括心脏病、癌症和糖尿病)中的作用。因此,他决定成立一家专门生产植物肉的私营企业。

他解释称,他们的宗旨是生产出的产品不仅与动物蛋白毫无差别,而且比传统肉类对人们更有益,而且更便宜。但是,生产这种产品并不难,难的是如何让人们接受它。

“我们确实面临艰巨的任务,”他在说道。“我很早就明白一点,恐吓或说教不能解决问题。因为人们不想听。”

现在,为了说服人们在购物清单和外卖订单中加入Beyond Meat的产品,该公司聘请迪安德尔•乔丹和克里斯•保罗等一些运动员进行宣传,而不是聘请营养师或科学家来说服消费者。公司推出的宣传口号是“食你所爱”(“Eat what you love”)。宣传已见成效。尽管多个食品行业领域因新冠疫情遭受重创,但该公司的股票却仍在上涨。(财富中文网)

译者:郝秀

审校:汪皓

Beyond Meat公司CEO伊森•布朗在上大学时并不清楚自己的人生目标是什么。但在与父亲交流之后,他发现全球面临的最大问题是气候变化,如果环境不稳定,音乐家或医生所做的贡献都会被削弱。

虽然他明确了他要解决的问题,但却苦于找不到最好的解决方法。他最初在全国州长协会促进最佳实践中心(National Governors Association Center for Best Practices)工作,后又到一家氢燃料电池公司巴拉德动力系统有限公司(Ballard Power Systems)工作。

布朗在最新一期《下一代领导力》(Leadership Next)节目中说:“在此期间,我了解了如何应对全球问题,以及如果你要用技术解决这些问题,你需要哪些基础设施。”

他最终发现政府和非营利部门的改革步伐太慢了。与此同时,多年来,他了解到牲畜及其在气候变化、自然资源利用和保护方面的作用,以及动物蛋白在对抗各种人类疾病(包括心脏病、癌症和糖尿病)中的作用。因此,他决定成立一家专门生产植物肉的私营企业。

他解释称,他们的宗旨是生产出的产品不仅与动物蛋白毫无差别,而且比传统肉类对人们更有益,而且更便宜。但是,生产这种产品并不难,难的是如何让人们接受它。

“我们确实面临艰巨的任务,”他在说道。“我很早就明白一点,恐吓或说教不能解决问题。因为人们不想听。”

现在,为了说服人们在购物清单和外卖订单中加入Beyond Meat的产品,该公司聘请迪安德尔•乔丹和克里斯•保罗等一些运动员进行宣传,而不是聘请营养师或科学家来说服消费者。公司推出的宣传口号是“食你所爱”(“Eat what you love”)。宣传已见成效。尽管多个食品行业领域因新冠疫情遭受重创,但该公司的股票却仍在上涨。(财富中文网)

译者:郝秀

审校:汪皓

Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown wasn’t sure what he wanted to do with his life when he was in college. But after a conversation with his dad, he realized that the biggest problem facing the world was climate change, and that the contributions made by a musician or doctor in an environmentally unstable world would be weakened.

Once he determined the problem he wanted to solve, he wasn’t quite sure of the best way to address it. He started his career at the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, then worked at Ballard Power Systems, a hydrogen fuel-cell company.

“I learned in that process about how to attack a global problem, and the type of infrastructure you need if you’re going to use technology to solve problems,” Brown says on the latest episode of Leadership Next.

He ultimately found the pace of change in both government and the nonprofit sector to be too slow. Meanwhile, over the years, he had learned about livestock and the role it plays in climate change, natural resource use, and conservation, as well as the role that animal protein has in widespread human medical issues including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. So he chose to focus on creating plant-based meats in the private sector.

The goal, he explains, is to make a product that not only is indistinguishable from animal protein, but also is better for you and cheaper than traditional meat. But creating the product has been less of a challenge than getting people to build it into their diets.

“We do have our work cut out for us,” he says around the nine-minute mark of the episode. “The thing that I got clear on very early on was, you’re not going to browbeat or moralize your way to this issue. People don’t want to hear it.”

Right now, to convince people to add Beyond products to their grocery lists and takeout orders, the company is focusing on marketing using athletes such as DeAndre Jordan and Chris Paul. It's also pushing the trademarked “Eat what you love” slogan, rather than using dietitians or scientists to persuade consumers. And it’s working. The company’s stock is up despite the coronavirus pandemic battering many parts of the food industry.

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