On this week’s Spoon Podcast, SuperGut CEO Marc Washington joins me to speak about why new GLP-1 medication like Ozempic and Wegovy hold CPG model CEOs up at night time.
These new medication, which acquired their begin as a brand new class of prescription drugs that assist management kind 2 diabetes, have change into very fashionable lately as weight reduction miracle drug. They’re massively efficient in suppressing appetites and lowering the general calorie consumption of these taking them, a lot in order that some speculate that they may have a major impression on the general demand for meals if, as predicted, tens of tens of millions start to take them in coming years as costs come down they usually change into out there in additional accessible codecs.
Marc’s firm, SuperGut, creates a pure different to GLP-1 medication within the type of dietary supplements, snacks and bars. His journey to change into CEO of SuperGut was born out of a private loss and an opportunity assembly with Dave Friedberg, the CEO of The Manufacturing Board.
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