DiscoverEngineered for Impact#014 - Chemical engineering to oat-based cheese with Sarah Qian
#014 - Chemical engineering to oat-based cheese with Sarah Qian

#014 - Chemical engineering to oat-based cheese with Sarah Qian

Update: 2024-01-17
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Sarah is the founder of Compassion Creamery, an oat-based cream cheese startup.


In this episode we discuss

  • Sarah’s journey from studying chemical engineering to founding Compassion Creamery
  • The challenges she has faced in scaling up her operations
  • The ways physical-based startups differ from software-based startups
  • Sarah’s advice for other engineers interested in startups
  • How engineers can contribute to alternative proteins and solving challenges in food systems change

Full show notes: http://engineeredforimpact.show/sarah

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PatVUAn1_Z4


Timestamps

(00:00:07 ) Intro

(00:01:07 ) Sarah

(00:03:14 ) Sarah's journey

(00:13:53 ) Compassion creamery

(00:15:56 ) Solving hard problems

(00:27:16 ) Sarah's day to day

(00:31:47 ) Australian Alternative Protein landscape

(00:38:15 ) How engineers can contribute to alternative proteins

(00:43:30 ) Advice for other engineers  

(00:56:34 ) Valuable engineering skills

(01:00:47 ) "Should I start a startup?"

(01:06:11 ) Resource suggestions

(01:07:47 ) What do you wish you had invented?

(01:13:03 ) Outro

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#014 - Chemical engineering to oat-based cheese with Sarah Qian

#014 - Chemical engineering to oat-based cheese with Sarah Qian

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