Business for Good Podcast
Long-form conversations with entrepreneurs and investors using business and innovation to address major social and environmental problems.
- Host
- Paul Shapiro
- Published by
- Business for Good Podcast
- Topic
- Ethical Business & Entrepreneurship
- Format
- Interview
- Orientation
- Impact-First
- Themes
- Regenerative
- Made for
- Founder / Entrepreneur, Corporate Leader, Investor
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1 Oct 2026 · 49 min
Forty Years of Farm Sanctuary: Gene Baur on What's Worked and What Hasn't
In 1986, Gene Baur co-founded Farm Sanctuary with a simple theory: show people how factory farming works, and they will stop eating animals. Forty years later, per capita meat consumption in America has risen from 196 pounds to 232 pounds per person, and the number of farmed animals entering U.S. slaughterhouses has doubled from roughly 5 billion to 10 billion. In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with his longtime colleague and friend to ask the hard question: what actually moves the needle for farmed animals? Gene traces the arc from early investigations and rescues t
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15 Sept 2026 · 45 min
Inside the Alt Protein Job Market with Noga Golan
Is alternative protein really a failing industry, or are investors just applying the wrong timeline? Noga Golan, Founder of Food Impact Partners and Food Impact Careers, has an unusually clear view of that question. Her executive recruiting firm and free job board sit at the intersection of candidate demand and company hiring across the global food innovation landscape. In this episode with Paul Shapiro, Noga shares data from nearly 60,000 job views and 35,000 application clicks in the first half of 2026, revealing that companies are still actively hiring even as the broader narrative around a
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1 Sept 2026 · 48 min
How Two Grad Students Teamed Up With Sam Altman to Build an $8 Billion Nuclear Energy Company
How does a nuclear energy startup with roughly a million dollars in revenue become an $8 billion publicly traded company sitting on $3 billion in cash? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Caroline DeWitte, Co-founder and COO of Oklo, to find out what investors are betting on and why the company believes it can deliver. Oklo is building compact nuclear powerhouses that use fast neutrons to extract up to 95 percent of the energy in nuclear fuel, compared to roughly five percent in conventional reactors. The company plans to run its first plants on recycled fuel from