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Ethan Brown, Beyond Meat’s CEO, talks with a laboratory technician in their
‘color lab’ in El Segundo, Calif., in 2020. JESSE CHEHAK FOR WSJ. MAGAZINE
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BEYOND MEAT’S VERY REAL PROBLEMS: SLUMPING SAUSAGES, MOUNTING LOSSES


FOUNDER AND CEO ETHAN BROWN HAS STRUGGLED TO MANAGE GROWTH, SOME CURRENT AND
FORMER EMPLOYEES SAY. ‘PUSHING BACK ON ETHAN WAS VERY HARD.’

Ethan Brown, Beyond Meat’s CEO, talks with a laboratory technician in their
‘color lab’ in El Segundo, Calif., in 2020. JESSE CHEHAK FOR WSJ. MAGAZINE
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Jesse Newman
Nov. 21, 2022 11:29 am ET

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Beyond Meat Inc. was moving into its new 300,000-square-foot headquarters in the
Los Angeles area last month when it laid off about one-fifth of its workforce,
the second round this year.

Ethan Brown, the company’s chief executive and founder, assured employees at a
town hall a day later that a more focused version of his plant-based food
company would thrive. He compared Beyond to Starbucks Corp. and Martin Cooper,
an inventor of the cellphone, saying people thought they would fail, too.


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