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Kit Gallant Left Big Law for a Vape Factory. Then Came the Ban.
A teacher became a lawyer, a lawyer became a founder, and four friends moved west to build Fernway. The useful part of Kit Gallant's story is how they kept moving when the market, the rules and the timing refused to cooperate.
Erin Gore Built a Cannabis Company From a Kitchen Table and an Engineer’s Mind
A Wisconsin-trained chemical engineer turned informal baking gatherings into Garden Society - then learned to manufacture, finance and expand a consumer brand inside an industry whose rules were still being written.
Lume Cannabis Co.
Lume built Michigan's biggest cannabis operation by refusing the industry's multistate script. Its bet is simpler and harder: own the plant, the factory, the shelf and the customer relationship - all inside one state.
Jeeter - a DreamFields Brand
Jeeter turned a college-era nickname for a joint into a nine-figure cannabis business. Its real product is not only the pre-roll - it is the ritual, packaging and release-day theater built around it.
Distru
Distru is an Oakland-based software company that builds a purpose-made ERP for the licensed cannabis industry. Its seed-to-sale platform unifies inventory, order fulfillment, manufacturing, CRM, and financial tools while keeping operators compliant through deep two-way integrations with state track-and-trace systems like Metrc and BioTrack. Founded in 2016 and led by CEO Blaine Hatab, Distru serves cannabis distributors, manufacturers, cultivators, and retailers across roughly 25 states and processes more than $2 billion in transactions annually.