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Ben Lewis Built a Food Company by Missing the Shelf
A lost Whole Foods launch forced Ben Lewis to learn what the shelf could never tell him. Eight years, more than 80 million meals and one enormous Target debut later, the detour looks less like a setback than the design of Little Spoon.
Mike Zelkind Tried to Take the Weather Out of Farming
He built a farm like a factory, betting that software, sensors and stubborn operational discipline could shorten the distance between a seed and a salad. The experiment scaled across America - and ended by exposing the brutal economics beneath agriculture's most controlled environment.
Chandni Chainani Bet on Speed. Then She Chose the Harder, Smarter Pivot
The Dropezy co-founder once raced groceries across Jakarta in minutes. A close reading of the numbers led her somewhere less flashy and more fundamental: Indonesia’s fragmented poultry supply chain.
Cliff Pollard Put the Missing Middle on the Menu
He started with ten cattle, borrowed coolers and a promise to pay. A decade later, the Oakland founder is still betting that the difficult part of better meat is the part worth owning.
Sumer Johal
Sumer Johal is a technology executive and entrepreneur with more than 25 years building digital-first organizations across agtech, bioenergy, semiconductors, financial services, and consumer retail. He grew up in a farming family in Punjab, India, studied computer science and electrical engineering at MIT, and has spent the past decade focused on food and agriculture. He founded the food-industry big-data company Agralogics, launched and led AgStack at the Linux Foundation, ran the precision-agriculture company Semios (which rebranded as Almanac), and became CEO of Full Harvest, the B2B produce marketplace, as it moved into AI-driven agentic orchestration for the food supply chain.