Group Lead, Ved Krishna
What a month it has been for the Good Garbage Podcast team! The team attended the Rethinking Materials Summit in London and we’re still not over how incredibly insightful the whole experience was! The Summit gave us a chance do one of those rare in person recordings with Scott Bolin, the founder of
0:00 – Scott Bolan, the founder of Terasafe Materials and I met on the sidelines of...
To me, good garbage is garbage that you can look your children behind. Hello. Hello. Welcome to the good garbage podcast. My name is V Krishna. My primary reason for existence has been to find ways to leave our wonderful planet cleaner. We will be speaking with material innovators, creators, and propagators to learn from them how we can build for s
9:00 – And you and the packaging company would know a lot of great innovations that...
Charleston. Okay. And my other half my family is in Point Pleasant, home of the moth man. Half man, half moth. Very cool. I did not know that. But my wife grew up in Elkins. Okay. So at least every summer we are there. They have this uh festival that happens in Elkins and my wife is loves Zidico dancing. Yes. And there is a lot of bands that come t
19:00 – Tell us more about why you say that's a challenge from a materials angle
it turned out the filmmakers had never made pods and the pod makers had never worked with a novel film material before. And so it was just this neverending blame game between two well-intentioned outsourced R&D groups. So we brought in our experienced team within six months we got to revenue. But the terasig model has really morphed to not just you
28:00 – Good Garbage is sponsored by Pekka, a family of brands that produces compostable packaging...
think those are really difficult to scale up and so want to make sure that if I go to a large packaging partner they’re not going to be wondering am I going to have a supply chain crunch later because I can’t get enough of magic ingredient number five. So we try to keep it pretty pretty plain jane vanilla on that that end. But navigating that is re
38:00 – How difficult or easy have you found the supply chain on the raw material...
Chick-fil-A to to look at my material. So, they ate chicken nuggets and said that actually works. So, there there’s some um is there a grand track record of material excellence? I wish there was. I’m I’m kind of pioneering it. Unfortunately, the carbon 3D story is the more common story, which is a great inventor moves to Silicon Valley. I find that
48:00 – Bad toilet paper and good toilet paper I mean from class to class it...
may not work for for a company of your size, but we we lead with the health issue a lot, which is, okay, that’s how you currently price and perform things, but you’re also exposing your customers to more microplastics in their brain. And so, we we try to pick battles where there’s clear blue sky of you may have to compromise, but you’re not going t
57:00 – At my liquor company, we ended up spinning out brands and raising outside funding...
convertible node structure of, hey, you know, we we don’t know where it’s going to land. to get to your question, it really gets at who is investing, right? And so, could you do the spin out model? Absolutely. At my liquor company, we ended up spinning out brands and raising outside funding into them. Um, could be that we do that. It could be that
67:00 – Now we're we've we've merged a pot company with a company that does barriers...
even the London marathon and things like that and of course uh so how do you see these uh quote unquote competition uh as you as we go forward where there is similar applications that are being developed u you know how do you see yourself differentiating from the the biggest differentiator that we have identified is really that question of scale. A
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