Corporate culture is about more than pool tables and other flashy amenities — it’s often about doing hard, focused work to determine who to hire and how those hires will work together. We explore what makes an alt-meat company a great place to work and why it matters.

The Better Meat Co. EVP of Operations Doni C. Allen and Logistics and Content Coordinator Tyler Byrum, in their booth at The Good Food Conference in 2023.
Move fast and break things.
The infamous Silicon Valley mantra wouldn’t take alternative protein startups very far.
Moving fast, heedless of regulations and protocols, is counter to food safety and could tee up a collision course with well-established consumer preferences. And food had better be whole and safe — not broken — when it heads to customers.
But the product and process standards that put the brakes on some of the tech-…