What podcasts say about Yuki Hanyu
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What Yuki Hanyu has said on podcasts
28 statements · 13 positive · 11 negative · 1 mixed · 3 neutral
Cultivated meat technology remains constrained by scaling, pricing, and unfavorable unit economics.
“the issue has always been the scaling and unit price. And also on the other side, on the other side that will be the unit economics that's not quite working yet.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 3:27
Insufficient production prevents meaningful consumer testing of cultivated meat.
“Because you, unless you have sufficient quantity, you can't even test for real to the consumers. And until then it will be all fantasy.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 3:42
Consumers’ stated preferences differ substantially from their actual purchases.
“what consumers say and what they actually buy are always very different.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 4:07
No commercial product has used fetal bovine serum because it is too expensive.
“And no one has actually made any commercial product with FBs too expensive anyway.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 5:22
Fetal bovine serum is difficult to quality-control because its chemical composition varies.
“such a Quality control of FPS is really difficult”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 5:41
Cultivated meat currently reaches at most roughly 70% imitation of conventional meat.
“I think as of now, the 70 is like the maximum.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 7:15
Large stirred-tank bioreactors produce cell slurry rather than steak-like muscle tissue.
“right now, the cell cultured meat, what they say is made in like large stirred tank bioreactors. And it is not making steak, it's making like slurry of cells.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 7:20
Integrity Culture is developing cultured duck-liver cells grown on scaffolds.
“cell cultured duck liver cells on cell scaffolds that actually looks like this.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 9:14
Integrity Culture’s ecosystem separates open-source research, nonprofit regulation work, and commercial infrastructure.
“So what we came up was to build an ecosystem. So Shoji Meet project is open source. They do the more visionary stuff like in this latest zine. And then there's cell agriculture Institute of Commerce nonprofit. They speak with the government regulators and maybe established industry association. Then there's integrity culture company that builds the physical infrastructure.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 13:47
Hobbyists may develop novel cultured foods and use Integrity Culture to scale successful products.
“If things go well, what we are going to get is some hobbyists developing novel sort of cell cultured meat. It could be like pork muscle, tuna fat, healthy meat, something like that. And if it's good and he or she wants to expand, they could come to integral companies to expand.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 14:38
Cultured food can be designed with arbitrary combinations of meat and flavor characteristics.
“if it's still cultured, you can design that like meat or better say food in any way you want.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 15:57
Vow Foods’ quail product avoids existing price benchmarks and demonstrates cultivated-meat possibilities.
“Setting the initial products of quail meat, they cannot benchmark against any existing category. So they can put in whatever price they want. And also it shows the possibility of this technology.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 16:23
Japan’s food regulations currently prevent cultivated meat from reaching supermarkets.
“right now in Japan, because the food regulation is not ready yet, so it's not there.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 18:35
Cultivated meat production is at most 0.001% of the conventional meat industry.
“the scale is so tiny that it's. I think it's the 0.001% or even less compared to the existing meat industry.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 22:49
Cultivated Wagyu-like beef could reach price parity in roughly ten years, depending on texture and branding.
“when it comes to like regular beef, if you're talking about wagyu beef, things like that, it also depends on texture, but I would say like 10 years or so.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 23:57
The technology needed for economical mass-market cultivated chicken does not yet exist.
“And we don't have the technology yet.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 24:48
Cosmetics revenue helps Integrity Culture remain financially viable while food technology matures.
“That's one of the ways of keeping us alive.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 25:55
Cultured placenta ingredients address safety and ethical concerns associated with conventional placenta products.
“if it's still culture, it basically solves all these problems.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 26:39
Egg-cell-based cultured serum offers a more stable supply chain and greater safety than imported human-cell serum.
“And that one's more supply chain stable because we don't need to import from Korea. And the existing stem cell serum is human cells, but that one's like vaccine grade eggs, center sales. So safer.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 27:03
Integrity Culture’s cultured cosmetic serum is somewhat cheaper than existing stem-cell serum.
“And also it's actually a little bit cheaper.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 27:17
Integrity Culture has raised approximately 15–20 million U.S. dollars.
“our fund rates so far have been something like somewhere between 15 to 20 million USD”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 27:48
Integrity Culture became profitable in the previous year.
“we actually turned profitable last year.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 28:28
The cultivated-meat sector will experience a hype crash, requiring companies to prepare beforehand.
“Because there will be this hype cycle stuff. Yes, there will be hype crash. Yeah. So we need to be ready by then.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 29:56
Integrity Culture’s cultivated-food business has not achieved product-market fit because products cannot yet be sold.
“when it comes to food, it's not in product market fit yet because we cannot even put product on the market yet.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 33:09
Beauty-product distribution channels matter more than ingredient patents for commercialization.
“when it comes to this kind of beauty products, then it's actually the sales, this hard earned sales channel is what matters. And it's not actually the patent on the ingredient itself and things like that.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 33:58
Potential space applications of cultured food technology helped Integrity Culture obtain seed funding.
“this potential application in space is also what led us to get into seed run funding mainly as an open source project”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 38:31
Cultivated meat will eventually form a category separate from traditional meat products.
“I think it will be a separate category.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 40:42
Cultivated hamburgers are a commodity target whose required price point will take time to achieve.
“Because it will be a commodity product. So it takes time to get that price point. But that is a Holy Grail.”
Open the episode · While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317Listen at 41:44
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