Why This Ex-Facebook Engineer Quit Coding... to Make Cow-Free Cheese - Spero Foods’ Phaedra Randolph

01/22/20 • 50 min

Phaedra Randolph is the founder and CEO of Spero Foods. She gave up a lucrative career in tech engineering to start her own mission-driven food startup. In this inspiring and informative episode, Phaedra tells us how she took an unexpected ingredient and turned it into a delicious, super healthy plant-based cheese that’s better for you, animals and the planet. (She also shares some of the secrets behind her successful career change.)

Spero Foods website: https://www.sperofoods.co/

Music interlude created by Lee Rosevere.

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Spero Foods website: https://www.sperofoods.co/

Music interlude created by Lee Rosevere.

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