Shiok Meats: Sandhya Sriram

🌊🍤 Shrimp, Stem Cells, Star Trek 🚀 Orange Juice 🍊 and more!  

In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Sandhya Sriram, co-founder and CEO of Shiok

Meats. Shiok Meats is the world’s first cultivated crustacean meat company, and Southeast Asia’s first

cultivated seafood company.  “Shiok” is a local slang that means fantastic, delicious, and simply,

pleasure. Their mission is to bring delicious, sustainable, and healthy seafood to your table,

using our technology to grow meat from healthy cells instead of animals.

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📝Show Notes Below👇

🎧 New podcast episode: 

“I always questioned, “why do people eat meat?”...
And then, I came to the conclusion that I shouldn’t answer the why, I should just answer, how do we do this?” 

Sandhya Sriram, co-founder and CEO of Shiok Meats. 

Find Sandhya on LinkedIn, and check out Shiok Meat’s website here. 

🥃 What we drank during the episode: Decoy, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa (Matt) and Orange Juice 🍊(Sandhya).

Enjoy the show!

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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:

🦐Shiok Meats

🦐Decoy Wines

🦐BevMo Liquor Stores

🦐Innovate 360

🦐Ants Innovate

🦐Avant Meats

🦐Wild Earth

🦐Phyx44

🦐Kind Earth Tech

People/places/things mentioned during the show:

🧠Napa Valley

🧠Chennai, India

🧠Marina Beach

🧠Gujarat, India

🧠Abu Dhabi

🧠Dubai

🧠Kuwait

🧠Singapore

🧠Bollywood

🧠Karan Johor

🧠Aamir Khan

🧠Koffee With Karan

🧠Mark Post

🧠St. John’s Island

🧠Ryan Bethencourt

🧠Hong Kong

🧠Ira Van Eelen

🧠Willem Van Eelen

📚Ikigai - Book (Francesc Miralles & Hector Garcia)

📚First 90 Days - Book (Michael D. Watkins)

📚Zero to One - Book (Blake Masters & Peter Thiel)

-TIMESTAMPS-

[00:00] Intro

[01:20] Drink of the Show

[03:30] About Sandhya’s upbringing

[06:25] Indian Movies

[08:01] Sandhya’s Entrepreneurial Drive

[09:37] When she met her husband

[10:40] School studies and experience

[12:35] Stem cells for aging and other applications

[14:56] Stem Cell 101 - What is a stem cell

[16:19] Cloning vs. Stem Cells

[17:21] Mid-life crisis - PHD to starting a business

[22:03] About Shiok Meats

[22:55] Seafood and the Asian diet

[23:49] Seafood supply and demand

[26:15] Farmed vs. Wild - What to look out for when buying seafood

[27:24] Carbon footprint of shrimp

[29:02] Price volatility of shrimp and crustaceans

[30:22] What are we feeding shrimp and crustaceans

[31:06] Inspiration to start Shiok Meats and being vegetarian

[34:46] Deciding which meat to produce

[36:06] First time extracting shrimp stem cells

[37:36] St. John’s Island

[41:27] Singapore expanding in food biotech

[43:09] Other food biotech companies

[43:56] Fundraising series A during Covid

[45:12] When will the product be available and Singapore’s 30/30 plan

[48:42] Singapore leading the way in cultivated meat regulations

[50:04] Shiok Meat’s special sauce

[51:19] The products and distribution

[53:00] Market comparison to electric vehicles and scaling up

[53:55] Matt wants his own bioreactor

[54:54] Sandhya’s being an angel investor

[55:57] Loved startups and founders

[58:20] Book recommendations

[01:00:12] Final Thoughts

[01:02:49] END