Then and Now: 120 Bioeconomy Pioneers look at yesterday, today, inspirations and challenges

Steve Weiss

Then and Now: Genomatica: lead marketing, as part-time consultant. Help with strategy, messaging, partnerships, more. Imprint Energy: ultrathin, flexible, printed batteries to power zillions of IoT devices. Additional entrepreneur mentoring and industry thought leadership through articles, talks, coaching sessions.

Inspirations: Great chance to remake processes and products to benefit people (and economies).

Challenges:  Right now: broad change and adoption doesn’t happen as fast as we’d all like to see. But, as with many markets: people tend to over-estimate how fast things develop at first – but then under-estimate how fast they will change once adoption kicks in. That will be exciting to be a part of.