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Oakland revoked Dhar Mann's cannabis license following his criminal fraud charges
“People that were doing business with me no longer wanted to work with me, and the city of Oakland even revoked the cultivation license I had won based on the charges alone.”
Dhar Mann launched a 15,000-square-foot 'Home Depot of weed' in Oakland
“So I started what later became known as the Home Depot of weed, and it was a 15,000 square foot hydroponic store right by the Oakland airport where we sold all the supplies patients would need to grow their own cannabis. Not the actual plants or any flower, ju…”
Oakland awarded Dhar Mann one of its first medical marijuana cultivation permits
“The city of Oakland around that time was about to issue medical marijuana cultivation licenses that were going to be the first of its kind. And fortunately, I was one of four companies to be awarded the permit.”
Dhar Mann's 2018 video on stay-at-home moms surpassed 200 million views
“And sure enough, that video within a few hours had gotten thousands of shares and over a million views. And I'll never forget. It was posted on August 30th. And today that video has gone to receive over two hundred million views.”
Dhar Mann Studios amassed three billion Facebook views by late 2019
“And by July that year, we hit one billion views. So it took us just over a year from starting to hit that milestone. But by October, 2019, three months later, we hit two billion views. And then two months later, by November, we hit three billion views.”
Dhar Mann Studios ranked as the #2 global YouTube creator in 2021
“So we went from hardly getting any views our first couple of years to 20, 21 finishing as the number two creator on the platform globally. And number one, in scripted.”
Dhar Mann: YouTube videos averaged only 1,000 views from 2018 to 2020
“So for two years that happened from the middle of 2018 when we started on YouTube all the way to 20 20, they stayed at around a thousand views. So I completely disregarded YouTube. But on Facebook, we were experiencing rocket ship growth.”