Julia Collins

I think one thing that was important to me in that period between having left one thing and starting another was just who I surrounded myself with.

Yes.

And really developing like deep connections with other founders, ones who are a couple of steps ahead of me in the journey, ones who are right there with me, ones who were behind.

And that has become like my deepest, deepest source of support, information, frankly, and sometimes courage.

It's almost like you...

It does.

And it's never perfect.

It's still not perfect.

No.

I have a board member now where every time I have to get on the phone with him, I have to go like do 10 pushups before I get on the call and like eat a chocolate chip cookie afterward.

He drains so much energy.

But you don't have five of those board members, so it's progress.

It's progress.

Mm-hmm.

Sometimes the best things you ever build are the things that you don't even want to have to build.

And that's what happened with Moonshot to Planet Forward.

People, when they think about climate change, rarely think about food.

They should.

It's about a third of the global greenhouse gas emissions that come from food.

So moonshot was this idea that we could flip that, that we can make food that would actually sequester carbon, restore watersheds, protect the planet.