Ynsect CEO Antoine Hubert on entrepreneurship & edible insects
Forget business school, being in a band is the best training for being an entrepreneur the founder of the insect-farming startup tells Sifted over lunch.
Antoine Hubert, CEO of Ynsect, never expected to become a chief executive. Certainly not back in the days when he was bass guitarist in the experimental heavy metal band Stale Fish, which mixed traditional French accordion music with tortured guitar riffs.
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