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Fayl Tales
Behind every startup success story is a trail of mistakes, pivots, broken plans and brilliant comebacks.
Fayl Tales is the podcast where entrepreneurs, founders, investors and early employees share the real side of building something new - the failures that shaped them, the lessons they learned the hard way, and the resilience it takes to keep going.
Hosted by Loveth, each episode dives into the raw, funny and honest moments most business stories leave out - so you can learn faster, fail smarter, and feel less alone on your own journey.
Follow the show for weekly conversations that prove: failure isn’t the end, it’s part of the story.
Fayl Tales
Built & Raised $180M for V2 Food, Now Nick Hazell is Tring To Make Algae as Cheap as Oil
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Nick Hazell raised $180M building V2 Food, Australia’s market leader in plant-based protein, before exiting and turning his focus to an even bigger climate problem.
Now the founder of Algenie, Nick is betting that algae biomanufacturing could one day compete with crude oil and become a scalable solution for food, fuel, and materials.
In this episode, we cover:
- Raising $180M and scaling V2 Food nationally and globally
- What the plant-based meat boom got wrong (and what V2 did differently)
- The real challenges of supermarket listings and category confusion
- Missteps along the way, including expansion into China during COVID
- Why Nick left V2 Food and how the venture market shift changed everything
- The origin story of Algenie and the race to make algae economically viable
- Why climate tech won’t scale unless it makes financial sense
A candid conversation on ambition, failure, and building companies that aim for planetary-scale impact.
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