F2F - What do you want to ask David Friedberg, CEO of Ohalo Genetics

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Dave Friedberg is CEO of Ohalo, an agriculture biotechnology company delivering farmers unprecedented improvements in productivity through its Boosted Breeding™ platform, which delivers hybrid seed in crops that do not have access to seed today. Ohalo was founded inside The Production Board, Dave's investment holding company. Previously, Dave was founder and CEO of The Climate Corporation, the world’s leading digital agronomy platform, used by farmers across 200+ million acres worldwide. Monsanto acquired The Climate Corporation in 2013. Earlier in his career, Dave held senior roles at Google. Dave is also one of the co-hosts on the All-In podcast, the popular weekly show that aims to have the world's most important conversations across business, tech, politics, and social issues.

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Are the products that Ohalo created with their boosted breeding technology considered GMOs? Why is there so much push back to GMO products from consumers?

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if you could go back in time, would you have studied biology and genetics instead of astrophysics?

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Hybrid advocates tout "yield yield yield." But we have seen grain quality suffer in rice hybrids. Is thos something Ohalo is considering and if so, how?

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when you stop meiosis to create your hybrids, does that mean the offspring have double the number of chromosomes as the parents? Does that make the offspring a hybrid of hybrids?

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Where do you think agriculture is over-measuring things today, and where are we still missing the most important data?

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What ag problems are still massively under-digitized despite all the AgTech investment?

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Where do you still see friction between technology adoption and farmer ROI?

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Where do you believe the real long-term value of farm data will accrue — to farmers, input providers, insurers, or markets — and how should independent operators position themselves to capture that value?

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Are we seeing a push back with the advancing breeding in some vegetable crops due to the public concern / fear of Franking vegetables . It seems the industry in fresh market products is slow.

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