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Knook #43: Happy Hour

Happy Hour is one of New Zealand's first hard kombuchas, produced by Mama's Brew Shop. I talk with co-founder Liv McGregor about hard kombucha, the parallels between entrepreneurship and having small kids, and growing new retail category.

Knook #44: Helico Bio

Helico Bio is looking to generate compounds for drug development by turning plants into factories. I catch up with co-founder Ilya Vensky to talk about what he means by 'biopharming', using machine learning to reduce the amount of experiments, and tackling the global insulin monopoly.