I only skimmed it, but nothing in the article said scam? More just that they are facing enormous problems scaling production. Both at producing macroscopic quantities of chicken (vs thin chicken sheets) and how to productionize the process so it could produce the mega tons required to be a commercial product.
> I only skimmed it, but nothing in the article said scam?
Employee: "the startup could be the next Theranos".
Employee in-jokes are not at all proof of misbehavior.
Lots of teams poke fun at their shortcomings.
They obviously don't look great, but you're excerpting that as if it's employee testimony. It wasn't.