In the traditional corporate world, Intellectual Property (IP) is a weapon. You build a moat, you hide your secrets, and you crush the competition.
We reject this model.
Our mission statement is specific: “To develop technologies… that will help humanity achieve a faster rate of development.”
Notice what it does not say. It does not say: “To make FoodHero the biggest company in the world.”
The Scenario
Imagine a small startup in Pune discovers a way to keep vegetables fresh for 30 days without chemicals, drastically reducing waste. But they are running out of money.
A traditional company would:
- Try to acquire them cheap.
- Wait for them to die, then hire their engineers.
- Crush them with pricing wars.
FoodHero would:
- Fund them.
- Give them our logistics network.
- Share our customer base.
Why? Because if their technology succeeds, the cost of food drops for everyone. If we crush them, we might win market share, but humanity loses a solution to waste.
The Open Source Food Protocol
We intend to publish our findings.
- If Smartcart finds a way to reduce vegetable spoilage by 20%, we will publish the case study.
- If our engineering team solves a routing problem that saves fuel, we will open-source the code.
If we hoard the solution to a human crisis just to boost our quarterly revenue, we become the villain of our own story. We are a mission with a company, not a company with a mission.
The Question: If hunger ends but FoodHero goes bankrupt in the process, did we succeed or fail? (Hint: We succeeded).