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Josh Tetrick
Born
Joshua Stephen Tetrick

March 23, 1980 (1980-03-23) (age 44)
Birmingham, Alabama
NationalityAmerican
EducationBachelors Degree, Juris Doctor
Alma materWest Virginia University
Cornell University
University of Michigan Law School
Occupation(s)Founder and CEO of Hampton Creek

Josh Tetrick (born Joshua Stephen Tetrick; March 23, 1980) is an American social entrepreneur, speaker, and writer. He is currently the CEO of Hampton Creek, a technology company based in Northern California. Prior to founding Hampton Creek, Tetrick spent seven years in Sub-Saharan Africa working on various social campaigns, including a United Nations initiative in Kenya and teaching street children in multiple African countries as a Fulbright Scholar.[1] Tetrick earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, where he graduated at the top of his class, and received a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.[2]

Early life

Tetrick was born in Birmingham, Alabama where he lived until the age of 13, at which point his family relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a football player in high school and upon graduation, went to play for West Virginia University,[3] where he shared the defensive rookie of the year award with Adam King.[4] It was at WVU that he was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, thus ending any hopes of a future career in football.

Work in Africa

Upon graduating law school, Tetrick was hired by the Liberian government to work on the reform of Liberia's investment laws for its president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a job that he has joked in interviews he was not qualified for at the time, but learned a tremendous amount in doing.[5]He also worked on other social campaigns, including teaching street children and working to encourage child prostitutes from lives on the streets and into schools. This later formed the basis of the non-profit organization, "More Than Me", which he co-founded.[6][7]It was in Africa that Tetrick also first noticed serious issues with the global food system.[8]


Work at Hampton Creek

Tetrick developed the idea for Hampton Creek with his best friend, Josh Balk, in June, 2011. The idea stemmed from issues both had noticed in the global food system. He began initial business plans and meetings with Khosla Ventures, a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm later that summer. Hampton Creek received its first round of funding in December, 2011 and a second round (after a relocation to San Francisco) in June, 2012.[9]

Tetrick has been interviewed for his work with Hampton Creek in a variety of publications and media outlets including: CBS This Morning, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Inc., CNBC, CNN, Popular Science,Bloomberg Businessweek,[10] NPR,[11] The New York Times,[9] and others. In March 2013, Tetrick and Hampton Creek became one of only three companies to be featured in Bill Gates' documentary, The Future of Food.[12] In June 2013 Tetrick presented at a TED conference in Edmonton, Canada with a presentation on the future of food.[13]

In June 2014, Inc. named Tetrick to its annual "35 Under 35 list." That same month, CNBC named Hampton Creek to its annual "Disruptor 50" list and invited Tetrick to appear live on air with Jim Cramer. His credibility in business has also led him to be a coveted speaker at business conferences. In 2014, he keynoted TechWeek Chicago and is scheduled to keynote the World Food Prize's Borlaug DialogueInc.'s 5000 conference, the Pioneer's Festival in Vienna, and The Summit in Dublin later in the year.

Fundraising & Business

Tetrick invested $37,000 of his own money into Hampton Creek in 2011, shortly before Khosla Ventures provided $500,000 in seed funding to the company.[2] He is responsible for attracting notable investors such as Bill Gates, Li Ka-Shing, Peter Thiel, and Vinod Khosla to Hampton Creek,[2][14] and his efforts have resulted in a total of $30 million in fundraising for the company.[15]

Tetrick has driven Hampton Creek to achieve many business milestones in a remarkably short amount of time. He has secured deals with eleven Fortune 500 companies in just two years.[16]These partnerships include the top three retailers in the world and the largest food service company in the world as well.[17]Tetrick has also developed a knack for hiring top talent, including the former head of Google Maps, Dan Zigmond, who joined Tetrick's team in July 2014 to help build out its "plant database".[18]

References

  1. ^ One Founder’s Quest to Eliminate Eggs from Food Supply Chains, Triple Pundit, 22 July 2013, retrieved 12 March 2014
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference mac was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "West Virginia Mountaineers 2000 Football Roster". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  4. ^ "Record Book Supplement" (pdf). West Virginia Mountaineers. p. 40. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  5. ^ "Cornell E-clips". Cornell University. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "http://cornell-eclips.blogspot.com/2010/06/social-entrepreneur-josh-tetrick.html" ignored (help)
  6. ^ "This Mega-Funded Start-up Wants to Forget The Chicken and Reinvent the Egg". Entrepreneur. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232793" ignored (help)
  7. ^ "Iscol speaker: 'Thrive' by making a difference". Cornell Chronicle. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/09/iscol-speaker-thrive-making-difference" ignored (help)
  8. ^ "Former jock hatching new food biz with help from tech". USA Today. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/04/07/hampton-creek-foods-josh-tetrick-just-mayo-silicon-valley/7348077/" ignored (help)
  9. ^ a b Venture Capitalists Are Making Bigger Bets On Food Start-Ups, New York Times, 28 April 2013, retrieved 12 March 2014
  10. ^ Venture Capital Sees Promise in Lab Created Eco Foods, Bloomberg Businessweek, retrieved 14 March 2014
  11. ^ Why Bill Gates is Investing in Chicken-less eggs, National Public Radio, retrieved 12 March 2014
  12. ^ The Future of Food, The Gates Notes, retrieved 12 March 2014
  13. ^ The Future of Food: Josh Tetrick at TEDxEdmonton, TEDx, retrieved 12 March 2014
  14. ^ Egg Replacing Startup Hampton Creek Foods Raises $23 Million From Asia's Richest Man And Yahoo Co-founder Jerry Yang, Forbes Magazine, 17 February 2014, retrieved 12 March 2014
  15. ^ Lora Kolodny (17 February 2014), Hampton Creek Raises $23M to Make Eggs Obsolete, The Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch, retrieved 12 March 2014
  16. ^ Emily Chang (6 August 2014), $9B Egg Industry Inefficient, Bloomberg West {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  17. ^ Ryan Caldbeck (29 July 2014), The 25 Most Innovative Consumer and Retail Brands, Entrepreneur.com {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  18. ^ Sarah Buhr (3 July 2014), How A Former Google Data Guy Could Change What We Eat For Breakfast, TechCrunch {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

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