Bob Shapiro is a managing director at Cultivian Sandbox Ventures who previously served as chairman and CEO of Monsanto and chairman of Pharmacia, bringing unusually deep large-cap public-company leadership experience to venture investing in agriculture and food technology. He's known for coaching entrepreneurs with killer questions that pressure-test startup concepts and for building Sandbox Industries as a hybrid venture capital firm that both starts companies and invests in them before partnering into Cultivian Sandbox Ventures. Bob Shapiro is a managing director at Cultivian Sandbox Ventures who previously served as chairman and CEO of Monsanto and chairman of Pharmacia, bringing unusually deep large-cap public-company leadership experience to venture investing in agriculture and food technology. He's known for coaching entrepreneurs with killer questions that pressure-test startup concepts and for building Sandbox Industries as a hybrid venture capital firm that both starts companies and invests in them before partnering into Cultivian Sandbox Ventures.