![]() Well also, I mean, I even tried to stay away from the term activist animal advocate is something that just seemed to have spoken to me again with a legal term over the past 10 years. Would said don’t quite look like a lawyer. If, I mean, look at you, you’ve got the top knots and the beard that’s bigger than mine. We’re in a beautiful tech like office there’s, post-its all around the walls and MacBook, you are not looking like the quintessential vegan activist. So what these shirts, so, you’re, you’re, you’re just very suave. How did you land up in this career path? You you’re probably the only one that I know and you and people can’t see you, but you’re not in entire eye clothing. So you describe yourself as an animal activist. So yeah, it’s quite difficult when people ask me this And, and, and then I think also recently two months ago, after not eating meat for 15 years, I ate meat again. I dunno if it’s helpful to describe people. So I avoid animal products and you know, I think it’s probably helpful to describe food as vegan. You wouldn’t say so from a label perspective, you wouldn’t say, do you know you don’t need meat products? I can assume we can just kick this off the bat. Oh no, it’s it’s nine to 10 months of summer and two months of hell that’s and, and then more, more excitingly I guess, was a couple of years in Berlin and, and, and spent some time in the states, et cetera, working with people from all over the world, looking at food and, and talking about ways to, I guess, make food better. Capetonian spent the last 15 years of my life working in food, uh, alternative protein to be more, uh, exact and also working in animal advocacy, kind of combined the two as a career path and been lucky to do it, cuz it took me to places all over the place, uh, the world rather including Durban, which is, you know,, you know, sort after destination of people from Santon, but We’ll keep the meat of the matter for now. I’m gonna want you to, but we can pause that for a second. And we are Africa’s first cultivated meat company, which I’m sure I can unpack a little bit later. I’m Brett Thompson again, co-founder and CEO of Mzansi meat co that’s my day job. Who are you, where do you come from? And ideally, what do you do for a living?Įitan thanks very much for having me. So sitting here today with the man, the myth, the legend, Brett Thompson, Brett, tell me a little bit about yourself. I’m your host managing director of legalese, Eitan stern. Join us as we meet some of these big fish and find out how they’re looking to make their ponds even bigger. As a country, deep in economic development, there is massive potential for smart entrepreneurs to build something great. We’re going inside the room with some proud south African entrepreneurs to talk about their airy highs, lonely lows, and creamy middles of the road to success. The problem is that as lawyers, our work is confidential with big fish stories. As lawyers, working with startups and established businesses in the tech and creative industries, we get front row seats to some incredible business adventure rides. The podcast where we showcase local south African entrepreneurs, their stories, and their big relevance to the world, around them. You know what I heard? Do, you know, do you know what a good beer taste like, what taste like home? ![]() That gets to the point too quickly, beer, a slow, a slowĬelebration. So my mentor, he in his company is tequila and he is like, we celebrate with tequila and, and we drink a lot of tequila. Testing testing 1, 2, 3 testing testing, Brett Thompson loves to drink beer. And I was like the one thing I always would like, the reason why I want my own company is just like a beer. ![]()
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