{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowing-the-future.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fthe-wild-ride-of-agtech-startups-dfy27chG","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Ag Tech Is Where Enterprise Software Was in the Nineties","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1fa356cd-6e54-41a2-bbf4-99a91ee4ce68/66a5b14b-2ddb-445d-afc6-285034d7ee2e/cropped_1788553433071.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Wilson Acton is managing partner at Tall Grass Ventures and came to venture capital by way of a fifth generation Moose Jaw farm, an agriculture degree, a construction company and a decade as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer. He explains how venture capital actually works, why his fund invests earlier and more hands on than the standard model, and what he looks for in a founder. His central observation for producers is that agricultural software is currently at the stage enterprise software occupied in the nineties, single tools solving single problems, and that the platforms which consolidate it are what comes next. He also makes the case that most of the world's protein comes from animals and that the sector has been under invested while capital went elsewhere.\n"}