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Jake Muise Built a Food Company That Hopes to Sell Less
A volleyball scholarship, a lucky dorm assignment and a 19-year fixation on axis deer led Jake Muise to an unusual business: one whose ecological success makes every harvest harder.
The Meat Company Designed to Shrink: How Maui Nui Turns an Invasive Deer Problem Into Dinner
Maui Nui built a USDA-inspected slaughterhouse that moves through the dark, then sold the result as steaks, snack sticks and subscriptions. The stranger business lesson is that real success should make its raw material harder to find.
Flash Forest
Flash Forest is a Toronto-based reforestation company that uses drones, proprietary biological seed pods, aerial mapping, and machine learning to replant forests faster and cheaper than traditional hand-planting. Founded in 2019, it deploys aerial and ground-based systems to restore land degraded by wildfire and logging, and pairs planting with a forestry intelligence service that surveys and monitors forests. The company has planted more than 3 million trees and aims to reach one billion by 2028.