As one of the top 30 teams competing in the UW’s Dempsey Startup Competition this week, Austin Hirsh, graduate student in business at the UW, was pitching The 2050 Company, his startup that makes an instant smoothie powder from rescued produce. Hirsh is quoted. UW students Kade Eckert, Tanner Kooistra and Hera Ivarsdottir are mentioned.