Host Arman Anaturk (@ArmanAnaturk) has Sorosh Tavakoli (@soroshtavakoli) on the pod this week: Sorosh is the classic immigrant entrepreneur story. - His family had to leave his home country of Iran due to the Iran/Iraq war at the time. - Moves to a smallish town in Sweden (Uppsala) and tries to fit in - Gets really into software / tech at the height of the dot com boom - Builds and sells his first website (a fan page for Method Man) at age 14 - Goes on to study media technology where his classmates include soon to be founders of Spotify, SoundCloud & Prezi - Decides he never wants to work for anyone - Gets the idea for a media advertising company whilst in the shower - Builds the business to 100 people across 8 cities - Sells this business for an estimated $75M - Makes his family proud - Moves to NYTakes some time to learn about impact businesses & climate change - Tries launching a duckweed business. Fails - Now is creating the future of great tasting plant-based cheese together with his co-founder Anja and their team of scientist at Noquo Foods ---- Have you signed up to our weekly Firday FoodTech newsletter? Find out more and discover the other foodtech founder stories on www.foodhack.global Editing thanks to Annabelle Buckland