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Talk 16: Ten Years of MycoWorks with Sophia Wang

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This fall, MycoWorks is celebrating its ten-year anniversary, and to mark the occasion, we invited Sophia Wang, MycoWorks co-founder and Chief of Culture, back to the studio for a recap and a look forward.

In this episode:

1:10 – Collaborating with Phil Ross and learning about everything mycelium can do
3:00 – What Sophia today would tell herself over 15 years ago
4:00 – Attending IndieBio as a young entrepreneur
7:25 – Writing a first set of company values as a young team
15:45 – Leadership and mentorship from MycoWorks COO, Doug Hardesty
18:00 – What does “more Sophia” mean?
23:45 – Her first consumer experience of unboxing Reishi™ products 
28:45 – A new factory in South Carolina


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