23 Jan 2023
Anonymous employee
MycoWorks Response
3yThank you for your thoughtful review. As you mentioned, scaling up is a tremendous opportunity —one we feel humbled and privileged to embark on as a company. MycoWorks is a unique enterprise in that we’re doing something that has never been done before in history: commercially scaling the production of Fine Mycelium, a completely new category of material. As a company we bring together biotechnology expertise with innovations in manufacturing, process engineering and product development in ways that have never been done before.
Some speed bumps along the way are inevitable in this process—but effective, transparent communication and employee empowerment in decision-making are high priorities for us, and we are absolutely committed to learning from the feedback we receive, including yours. As MycoWorks grows, so has our capacity for long-range vision in our organizational design, product strategy and technology development—and the input and agency of all team members has been essential to this.
With the recent addition of our passionate VP of Technology Development and other strong additions to our team, we’re now positioned to bring technology development and manufacturing into closer collaboration and alignment. With that in mind, technology development efforts have been and continue to be laser focused on the product and process improvements that will enable our scale-up towards mass manufacturing. That is because MycoWorks absolutely prioritizes our product's commercial value and availability to our consumers, the brands we partner with and their customers.
This can sometimes call for us to change course and re-prioritize goals which in turn, demands that we communicate effectively to our teams. To this end, it has been and will continue to be a foundational priority that all team members at MycoWorks are given the information and context they need to thrive in their roles and to understand any changes that impact them and their teams.