Boom Funding , Plastic Food and AI
Boom Technology, Inc.
Type
Private
Industry
Aerospace industry
Founded
2014; 7 years ago
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Founders
Blake Scholl
Joe Wilding
Josh Krall
The company was founded in Denver in 2014. It participated in a Y Combinator startup incubation program in early 2016, and has been funded by Y Combinator, Sam Altman, Seraph Group, Eight Partners, and others.
In May 2020 Altman donated $250k to American Bridge 21st century, a Super-PAC supporting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
He is an investor in many companies, including Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, Asana, Pinterest, Teespring, Zenefits, FarmLogs, True North, Shoptiques, Instacart, Optimizely, Verbling, Soylent, Reserve, Vicarious, Clever, Notable PDF (now Kami) and Change.org.
He was the CEO of Reddit for eight days in 2014 after CEO Yishan Wong resigned.[31] He announced the return of Steve Huffman as CEO on July 10, 2015.
During the COVID-19 pandemic Altman helped fund and create Project Covalence which helps researchers rapidly launch clinical trials in partnership with TrialSpark a clinical trial startup.
Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. OpenAI is a for profit research company whose goal is to advance digital intelligence in a way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, rather than cause harm.
Soylent is a brand of meal replacement products made by Soylent Nutrition, Inc. Soylent was introduced in 2014 after a crowdfunding campaign.
Although Soylent contains levels of lead and cadmium far below the national safety levels set by the FDA, it does contain 12 to 25 times the level of lead and 4 times the level of cadmium allowable in a product without additional labeling as specified by Proposition 65.[26][27] A lawyer who has worked on settlements of Proposition 65 suits described the case as "alarmist", as the levels are well below FDA limits of what is allowed in food products.[28] However, as Soylent is marketed as a complete meal replacement, many customers consume the drinks three times a day, equating to 36 to 75 times the lead and 12 times the level of cadmium without the Prop 65 label.[29] Lead is a neurotoxin that accumulates in soft tissues and bones, and even at low levels is linked to nerve damage, lower IQ, and reproductive problems including decreased sperm count. Cadmium is also a toxic heavy metal and has been linked to kidney, liver, and bone damage.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(meal_replacement)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_Technology