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.