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MEALMATCH Arnav/Cameron interview
MEALMATCH Arnav/Cameron interview
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Knovva Academy
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Mar 10, 2021
9:53 AM
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Dingy startups in gloomy two-room offices. Small companies with too little overhead, too few employees, too much overtime, and too overwhelmingly consumerist, commercial aspirations to pluck at anyone’s heartstrings or make a vision for staying longer than it takes to pay off your car. It’s the world of new business that makes the oversowed field of venture capitalism the shiny thing to behold… but, in far larger part, a disagreeably failure-ridden system that disappoints, if not immediately scares away, its newest inductees.
Sometimes.
Arnav Machavarapu and Cameron Meyer met in 2019, in a presciently pre-quarantine fashion, virtually, through a summer entrepreneurship program for high school students called Launchy. This past Fall, they attended Knovva Academy’s first Virtual Model G20 Summit: Imagining a Post-Pandemic World.
Though a distance of several thousand miles separates the two pre-college-ites — Cameron in the venture capital of the Bay Area, and Arnav in the quickly gaining hipster haven of indie innovation, Austin, Texas — the two young men saw the grist under the glitter of their two cities: behind the food trucks and beer gardens, a pandemic of food insecurity among its denizens that’s being addressed primarily through red tape-laden soup lines and large gatherings that, mid-lockdown, are near unsupportable.
Their bionic baby, MealMatch, is growing up into a full-fledged philanthropic powerhouse that connects donors and their surplus food with an easy network around their city to respond to requests for real nourishment — not just the old can of garbanzo beans at the back of the pantry.
The following interview took place on December 16, 2020, under the glow of the impending Christmas break and after the haze of a week of exams for the two students. How are these guys feeding whole municipalities, how are they working to bring the service to larger and even more needy areas, and how are they doing it so young?
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