When HN users recommended it
1 HN user recommended this in 2015, in one comment.
20072026
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Nestle Healthcare Nutrition 85140100 Unflavored
Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.
This is where tech vs. business breaks down.
Tech thinks everything has to be new, unique, novel, and the-best-in-the-world.
Business is all about differentiation and marketing and getting inside customer minds. Even if Soylent was Ensure re-branded, they can still have a business by being "fuel for the tech crowd" instead of "feeding tube fuel" http://www.amazon.com/Nestle-Healthcare-Nutrition-85140100-U...
It's all the same product. You're paying to belong to a brand/cult for a personal enjoyment experience (I drink the same sludge as VCs! I'm awesome!!), not because the products are substantially different.
What's the end-game with Soylent anyway? Soylent will be sold to Nestle, the feeding tube people, not to Tesla or Apple or Microsoft or Adobe.