Business Is Boring

How bugs can save the world

Good Grub co-founder Jessie Stanley joins Simon Pound to chat life after her successful exit from I Love Pies, environmental advocacy in Pākiri and using bugs to create a sustainable source of protein.

20 Aug 2024

Business Is Boring

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Jessie Stanley first came on the pod to chat founding and growing I Love Pies, the startup she led through to a successful exit. From there she has helped spearhead a project to stop sand being mined in Pākiri, been a food expert for Snackmasters, and is now back with a new startup to help solve food waste and create sustainable protein with one big solution, using a very small method: bugs! Good Grub creates vertical bug farms, feeding food waste to black soldier flies and harvesting the fast growing grubs to be a source of protein and amino acids, great for pet feed, animal feed, fish feed and fertiliser. Jessie presented her startup at the Icehouse Showcase in August, and joined us to chat that experience, how bugs will change the world, fundraising and life as a second time founder.