The CEO Obsessed With Making Eggs Without Chickens

Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) --- Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates is giving four stars to a new kind of egg that is hoping to disrupt the $9 billion dollar industry. Hampton Creek Foods is using technology, science and culinary expertise to replicate egg products sans chickens at a fraction of the cost. The company's first shelf-ready brand "Just Mayo," has already made its way to several store shelves including Whole Foods. Bloomberg's Rachel Crane tours this high-tech food lab with CEO Joshua Tetrick to find out what it will take to crack the primitive egg industry.  (Source: Bloomberg)

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