Alex Blum: $1200 Houses, Plant-based Plastics, Political Activism, and BioFi | Hard Tech Podcast #11
Hard Tech Podcast · Daniel Apo
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In this episode, we discuss:
- Alex's plant-based plastic alternatives for packaging, medical, housing, construction
- $1200 houses for refugees and disaster victims
- Eco-friendly agriculture in developing countries
- Agriculture in the Russia/Ukraine conflict
- Alex’s political activism and his award-winning documentary on the Rohingya people of Myanmar
- Strategies for employee-retention in tech
- Alex's health struggle with Psoriatic Arthritis
- BioFi and Jutin, Alex's product lines
- Alex's strategies for contending with the trend of failure in bioplastics startups