I've spent 11+ years at AWS building cloud infrastructure: capacity planning, deployment sequencing, commercial partnerships at $100M+ scale. Now I'm applying that same thinking to protein production.
Not because I'm a fermentation scientist. I'm not. I don't model biology.
I model infrastructure deployment: the physical and commercial systems that determine whether industries scale or stall.
The alternative protein industry is entering a new phase. The question isn't "Can we make it?" anymore. It's "Can we build the infrastructure to make it at scale, economically?"
That's an infrastructure problem, not an R&D problem.
It requires:
- Facility economics modeling (not biological modeling)
- Capital deployment sequencing (not product development)
- Commercial risk allocation (not consumer marketing)
- Multi-region strategy (not single-site optimization)
Over the next year, I'm publishing pieces on these topics and building working simulation tools for facility economics, deployment decisions, and partnership structures. Join me!