J-K is more of a numbers person on buying in and/or getting out. Yet, you asked me. If earnings are good, 140 ship has sailed. Brown can spin a story and sooner or later, WallStreet will listen.
I just found this article, I've never been sure who's shorting BYND, but it's not Gates! I actually wonder if his shares are even held in an account to be loaned out to short..........
Bill Gates On Plant-Based Meat Alternatives: 'You Can Get Used To The Taste Difference'
12:26 pm ET February 17, 2021 (Benzinga) Print
Mega-billionaire and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates wrote a new book titled "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" with a section devoted to addressing challenges associated with carbon-heavy food production.
Alt-Meat Investor: Gates, a well-known advocate of plant-based food and alternative meat solutions, owns stakes in multiple companies in the space either personally or through his Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Some of the names he directly or indirectly invested in include Beyond Meat Inc (NASDAQ: BYND) and a handful of private companies including Impossible Foods.
Gates said in an interview with MIT Technology Review that there are many innovative companies in the forefront of producing more food with less energy input.
"There are advances in seeds, including seeds that do what legumes do: that is, they're able to [convert nitrogen in the soil into compounds that plants can use] biologically," Gates said. "But the ability to improve photosynthesis and to improve nitrogen fixation is one of the most underinvested things."
Related Link: Impossible Foods Wants To 'Completely Replace Animals,' President Says After Price Cut Announcement
Market Share: The largest plant-based meat makers today — Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods — hold a market share of less than 1% of the world's meat supply, Gates said. But there is certainly a path to growth, in part based on a very "unpopular" approach of telling people: "You can't have cows anymore" and governments can "use regulation to totally shift the demand."
"I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef," Gates said. "You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they're going to make it taste even better over time."
(Photo: Greg Rubenstein via Flickr)
