The Blunt Boardroom

Bridgette Cruz moved to Massachusetts on 18 days of Airbnb money and a job offer with no relocation package. She had a vision for a cannabis brand, a DJ alias, a background in restaurant management and photography, and no funding. She took the chance anyway. Today she is the founder and CEO of Ultra Premium Gas, a self-funded, LGBTQ-owned cannabis brand rooted in Latino and Caribbean culture. She...

Rob DiFazio served in the US Navy's nuclear power program, and he went from operating submarines to running cannabis dispensaries. The discipline transferred. The stakes changed. Today he is the founder and CEO of CNA Stores, a veteran-owned, vertically integrated cannabis company with dispensaries in Haverhill and Amesbury and a cultivation facility down the street from mello's farm. Hi...

Most dispensaries are spending money to drive traffic to their website. Varun Patel thinks that is not the primary problem to solve. In this episode, Matt sits down with Varun Patel and Lauren Laplante-Rottman from Spokes Digital to talk about what AI is actually doing to cannabis marketing right now, why the conversion problem is more important than the traffic problem, and what operators who are...

Chris Fevry built two cannabis companies from scratch during COVID. No funding. No connections. Just a research rabbit hole and a co-founder willing to bet on an idea nobody had proven in Massachusetts yet. Today he is the CEO and co-founder of Your Green Package, one of the only third-party cannabis transporters in the state with its own proprietary logistics software, and Dris, a licensed home d...