Cannabis Industry

topic on 5 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes

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BIGDEAL Disclosure
Sanchez: Worked out early cannabis investment to cut $12M loss to $1M
“I invested in the industry that really needed regulation to happen, and if deregulation didn't happen, it wasn't going to really change, and so I remember like one deal, we almost lost twelve million, and then it got down to one, you know, and we did a workout…”
Codie Sanchez Jul 16, 2025 ▶ 35:45 My Billion Dollar Shark Tank Investment: Daymond John
Adam Shell lost millions in a failed California cannabis industry venture
“I face plan in the cannabis industry really badly. I lost millions of dollars. I'm still bereft with, I lost my money. I hurt my wife, my children. I lost investors' money, farms, farmers, like dude, it was Netflix bad.”
Adam Shell Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 22:17 One Turns the Lights On. The Other Walks You Toward Them.
Isenberg: MedMen succeeded by creating the Apple Store of cannabis
“The cannabis industry actually did a really good job of taking something that was like, Pretty like it was for stoners and stuff like that. And then in LA, there was this company called med men, which basically created like the apple for cannabis stores.”
Greg Isenberg May 1, 2024 ▶ 27:18 This legend gave away 3 crazy cash-flowing business ideas
Hua: Canadian cannabis public markets resemble the dot-com bubble
“It's feeling very frothy right now if you look at the Canadian markets. but there's, because there's only so limited access to invest, that capital flow keeps coming. It very much feels like the internet Dot com like bubble that was getting created. And sure …”
David Hua Oct 11, 2018 ▶ 47:56 Cannabis Startup Founders David Hua and Vincent Ning on Legalization, Banking, and Industry Trends · Y Combinator
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Contradicted
Peterson: Würk Is Only National Payroll HR Tech in Cannabis
“And right now we're the only national reaching payroll HR technology in this industry.”
Keegan Peterson Jul 29, 2017 ▶ 4:47 735: Sell Cannabis? He's Raised $3m To Be Your Payroll Management System
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Partly supported
Peterson: 150,000 Work in Plant-Touching Cannabis, Double in Ancillary
“There's a 150,000 employees in the space today that are touching the plant and then almost double that in the ancillary market like myself.”
Keegan Peterson Jul 29, 2017 ▶ 7:19 735: Sell Cannabis? He's Raised $3m To Be Your Payroll Management System

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