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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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Turning the microphone over

Startup Lessons Learned

For those that don’t know, I live in downtown Oakland which has been one of the protest flashpoints. Please understand, Black people are exhausted, angry, afraid, hopeful, and grieving -- all at the same time. On Friday night, the Target near my house, which is where I go to get the majority of my essentials, was looted and set on fire.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. No big shocker since it is co-founded by Biz Stone and Adam Ruegel. Investors are the “who’s who” including: Steve Case, Ron Conway, Jack Dorsey, Dave Morin, Betaworks, Founder Collective, AOL Ventures. - $1 million seed round. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.