Cash Crop - Cannabis Product Innovation

TROY DAYTONCEO • THE ARCVIEW GROUP w/ RYAN ESTESTroy co-founded cannabis investment and research firm, The ArcView Group, in 2010 and serves as CEO. ArcView created the ArcView Investor Network where more than 500 high net-worth investors have pumped more than $73 million into 116 cannabis-related ventures and raised more than $1.2 million for the legalization effort. ArcView also publishes The State of Legal Marijuana Markets, the most oft-cited market data and analysis report on the industry. ArcView co-founded Cannasure Insurance Services in 2011 and launched Canopy, a business accelerator in 2015. Troy is an elected board member of the Marijuana Policy Project and is a founding board member of the National Cannabis Industry Association. He is co-founder of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and also helped launch and served as the first sales director at Renewable Choice Energy, which was recently named the #1 green power provider by the EPA. In his spare time, Troy enjoys karaoke and Burning Man.

MARY SMITHCEO • GREENITO w/ RYAN ESTESGreenito™ is a complete engagement platform that is changing how businesses reach their customers, increase their sales volume and pay their bills. We bring information and market knowledge to both buyers and sellers. We charge customers a nominal fee to access merchant-driven promotions; our fee is deducted from the revenues paid to the merchant in order to cover costs. It’s simple. More importantly, Greenito™ collects the data essential for industry knowledge and growth, overlays that with consumer purchasing patterns, and shares the insights directly with the merchants that need it – powerful tools for effectively managing their businesses. And Greenito™ will provide access to financial services currently unavailable to the industry. We limit friction for the win-win.

RYAN G. SMITHCo-Founder & CEO ZACH SILVERMANCo-Founder LeafLink w/ RYAN ESTESPrior to cofounding LeafLink, Ryan founded two companies as a student at Colgate University. He later exited both successfully, selling one of them to a publicly traded real estate investment company. Ryan brings his experience creating and managing B2B firms and online marketplace investing in a highly regulated space to LeafLink as Chief Executive Officer. In 2016, Ryan was the first CEO in the cannabis industry to be listed on Forbes’ 30 Under 30.Zach’s diverse technical background includes experience as a consultant, product manager, and entrepreneur with positions at companies such as Ebay Enterprise and Limewire. As LeafLink’s Chief Technology Officer, he brings expertise in building tools for growing businesses, including platforms for sales force reporting, CRM, marketing, and data management. The company he previously cofounded, ReachLogic Media, was acquired by a Seattle-based adtech firm.

KARSON HUMISTON w/ RYAN ESTEScashcroppodcast.comEpisode 1Karson Humiston is the Founder and President of Gradujuana, the cannabis industry’s premier staffing agency. Gradujuana connects great cannabis companies with the skilled talent they need. Gradujuana offers direct hire, contract to hire, and temporary staffing solutions to dispensaries, grow facilities, infused product and ancillary cannabis companies. Gradujuana presents candidates with their perfect employments opportunities. Based on candidates area of specialty.

GRANT ORVIS w/ RYAN ESTES Many farmers are un-biased to what agriculture they are producing as long as it is easy to grow and can be sold at a profitable price.To gain the best profit per acre, working with a co-operative is access to knowledge and information, planting and harvesting techniques, processing abilities, and the most appealing, providing outlets for the product to be sold.Dr. Grant Orvis and the Colorado Hemp Cooperative provide answers to a lot of questions. For instance, with access to a community of contributed research, the issue about certified Industrial Hemp seed can be addressed.The Cooperative has people involved in the Industrial Hemp market that are as versatile as the plants’ uses.

WILLIAM SPILO w/ RYAN ESTESFOUNDER • CBDluxeFor the past two decades William Spilo has traveled the globe working as an international big mountain heli-ski guide, trainer and professional extreme snowboarder. As one of the most tenured guides in the extreme skiing business, William is known as a proven extreme wilderness leader with the polish and professionalism of a seasoned business executive.Throughout his career William has sustained numerous injuries and multiple surgeries, resulting in chronic pain and inflammation. Like so many of his fellow athletes, doctors were regularly prescribing NSAIDS (Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs , Advil, Aleve etc.) which have serious health risks associated with long-term use.Desperate to find a more effective, less harmful remedy for his aches and pains, William researched alternatives intensively with his doctors, acupuncturists and chiropractors. This research lead him to try CBD, the non-psychoactive component of the cannabis hemp plant.This supplement is so effective against pain and inflammation, with so few side effects, that William was inspired to start BE Labs to make products that live up to the true potential of CBD.Today William is focused on sharing the BE Labs products to provide relief for his fellow athletes, guide colleagues and anyone ready to tackle their next big adventure no matter how big or small.

SAMANTHA SANDT • JAKE BROWNE w/ RYAN ESTES FOUNDERS • HEMPBOXHempBox is a monthly gift box filled with the hottest hemp health and beauty products. Our team scours the globe to find the best-of-the-best in hemp to send our members each month.Samantha: I’m thrilled to be back in the cutting-edge world of cannabis. While the industry is in it’s infancy, there are so many wonderful people and businesses filling out the space. There is unprecedented opportunity in this burgeoning industry and I’m excited to be a part of it. I’m always looking for interesting concepts and ideas to sink my teeth into. My passion is in growing startups to their fullest (sometimes unimaginable) potential.Jake: Jake Browne is a Denver-based comedian, writer for the Cannabist and co-host of both the comedy game show Uncalled Four and the Whiskey and Cigarettes podcast.