
Qorium B.V.
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Sep 24, 2026
Michael Newton of Qorium talks lab-grown leather, why there's no green premium & selling into big brands
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30:22Michael NewtonGUEST
It takes a village to change an industry, and so we wanna build that village.
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30:25ChrisHOST
village.I think Qorium's quite an interesting story because like many climate companies, sustainability companies, it started, and I'm sure materials companies as well, to be fair, it starts as something someone's built at university and then spun off from academia, or it's from a scientist that's created this new way of doing something.
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30:45ChrisHOST
What I see is many companies then fall by the wayside because they don't do enough work on the commercial side of things, like how do we actually-
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30:53Michael NewtonGUEST
Sure
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31:19Michael NewtonGUEST
Uh, but he always used to say, "For every one engineer, you need 10 salespeople." Now, that's hyperbole, of course, right? But it was really this idea of like it's very easy for just founders and technologists to be totally obsessed and excited about their technology and not necessarily saying like, "Okay, how does like..." You know, is this a hammer looking for a nail or, or not?
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31:42ChrisHOST
Yeah.
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31:42Michael NewtonGUEST
We have been very fortunate at Qorium.
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31:44Michael NewtonGUEST
So the technology here, basically, our scientific co-founder is a guy named Dr.