A trained scientist and enthusiastic entrepreneur, Ricardo San Martin approaches the cultivated meat sector with a critical eye — and he’s teaching the next generation of scientists and corporate leaders to do the same.
As the director of the Alt:Meat Lab at UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, Ricardo San Martin “creates a hub,” as he puts it, for students at the undergraduate and graduate level to learn about business development within the alternative protein space.
“Everyone that teaches in the Center for Entrepreneurship has to be an entrepreneur,” San Martin says. “We don't have professors — they're practitioners, like consultants and alums that have…