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Podcast: By All Means
Episode: Episode 40 - Kent Pilakowski, Food Startup Investor and Advisor
Description: Behind every successful founder are the advisors, investors, mentors, and marketers who are integral to getting it right. Kent Pilakowski is one of those behind-the-scenes experts who helped to build Beyond Meat, Talenti, Good Karma and other hot food brands that have sold or gone public. Pilakowski shares his journey from General Mills to entrepreneurship and talks about the evolution of the food industry and what it takes for a new brand to break through today.
“Food has become a lot more fashionable,” says Pilakowski, who got a sales job with General Mills out of college in the 1990s and move...