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... electrical engineering, computer science and entrepreneurship ... Industrial and Systems engineering. He has worked in finance, procurement, and logistics .

by sequoia 13y ago

... electrical engineering, computer science and entrepreneurship ... Industrial and Systems engineering. He has worked in finance, procurement, and logistics ...sales, finance, and marketing.... early stage technology companies ... Big Data ... operations and sales ... drives the sales channels ... sales engineer in the desktop video conferencing market ... ...and that's it. So I'm supposed to upend the foundations of my health & body based on the... "research" of a bunch of 20 something electrical engineers & marketers? I don't want my body to be "disrupted", I don't wish for my health to "fail fast." This is not a photosharing app you're building. I find it profoundly bizarre and irresponsible that these people are recommending a total dietary replacement and they don't have single nutritionist or even anyone with a medical background on staff. Soylent team: you are MARKETERS, not nutritionists! Go disrupt something that either a) has fewer potential disastrous consequences or b) you actually know something about. on the other hand USian diets in many quarters are so bad that this stuff can't be much worse. :) But seriously, even for the veneer of legitimacy, hire a nutritionist! The lack of one makes me think you couldn't find one who would touch the project with a 10 foot pole.

SCdF 13y ago
Scary right? Great name though. I imagine it will succeed on that alone. (where succeed means "accrue money and and mind-share")
cLeEOGPw 13y ago
Are you really concerned about health of people who otherwise eat food that is PROVEN to be extremely unhealthy, or the idea of drinking nothing but one-of-a-kind liquid is so alien to you that you can't believe it could actually work?
cLeEOGPw 13y ago
Marketers have used the fake "experts" card so extensively, that it diminished the value of the opinion of the expert to near zero. He chooses fundamentally pure approach of giving the actual details of the product to you to judge. The information is there, read it, analyze the books used by the medics and nutritionists and judge by yourself. If you feel the need of an opinion of an expert, you are willingly trusting any potential scamer with the "nutritionist" or "doctor" title. Those experts are not some all-knowing gods that can single-handedly approve as safe, or disprove as harmful. They are the same people with the same access to information you and me has. And since nobody has experience with that kind of products, opinion of people who have given some title by someone is not much more valuable than anyone else who learns about nutrition himself.
- mbreese 13y ago
  Experts have spent years studying their field. Sure, the information and books are all there for you to learn from. Hell, if you spend enough time at it, you might be an expert too. But do you really expect someone to sit and spend the time required to truly grok nutrition, health, medicine, etc? Oh, and how do you sift through the information to determine what is true and what isn't? The information that experts have is probably available to most anyone, but where experts really have the advantage is that they have the proper context and training to correctly interpret and apply that knowledge. It's one thing to try this stuff out on your own body. When you start convincing others to try it too is when it gets dangerous.
  - cLeEOGPw 13y ago
    > Oh, and how do you sift through the information to determine what is true and what isn't? Regarding nutrition studies, it is not possible not only to regular person, but also to nutrition experts themselves, because there are many contradicting results from different studies in this field. That's why for this startup he uses mostly plain biology and chemistry, which is far less contradicting, and only fills some gaps with nutrition studies. I'd say nutrition studies are the weakest source of information available, compared to chemistry and biology. So you call this thing dangerous when others attempt it? If this is dangerous, how would you call mass consumption of junk food and trans fats? It should be called a genocide, if you call this experiment dangerous.

by sequoia 13y ago

SCdF 13y ago

Scary right? Great name though. I imagine it will succeed on that alone. (where succeed means "accrue money and and mind-share")

cLeEOGPw 13y ago

Are you really concerned about health of people who otherwise eat food that is PROVEN to be extremely unhealthy, or the idea of drinking nothing but one-of-a-kind liquid is so alien to you that you can't believe it could actually work?

cLeEOGPw 13y ago

Marketers have used the fake "experts" card so extensively, that it diminished the value of the opinion of the expert to near zero. He chooses fundamentally pure approach of giving the actual details of the product to you to judge. The information is there, read it, analyze the books used by the medics and nutritionists and judge by yourself. If you feel the need of an opinion of an expert, you are willingly trusting any potential scamer with the "nutritionist" or "doctor" title. Those experts are not some all-knowing gods that can single-handedly approve as safe, or disprove as harmful. They are the same people with the same access to information you and me has. And since nobody has experience with that kind of products, opinion of people who have given some title by someone is not much more valuable than anyone else who learns about nutrition himself.

mbreese 13y ago
Experts have spent years studying their field. Sure, the information and books are all there for you to learn from. Hell, if you spend enough time at it, you might be an expert too. But do you really expect someone to sit and spend the time required to truly grok nutrition, health, medicine, etc? Oh, and how do you sift through the information to determine what is true and what isn't? The information that experts have is probably available to most anyone, but where experts really have the advantage is that they have the proper context and training to correctly interpret and apply that knowledge. It's one thing to try this stuff out on your own body. When you start convincing others to try it too is when it gets dangerous.
- cLeEOGPw 13y ago
  > Oh, and how do you sift through the information to determine what is true and what isn't? Regarding nutrition studies, it is not possible not only to regular person, but also to nutrition experts themselves, because there are many contradicting results from different studies in this field. That's why for this startup he uses mostly plain biology and chemistry, which is far less contradicting, and only fills some gaps with nutrition studies. I'd say nutrition studies are the weakest source of information available, compared to chemistry and biology. So you call this thing dangerous when others attempt it? If this is dangerous, how would you call mass consumption of junk food and trans fats? It should be called a genocide, if you call this experiment dangerous.