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Jigar Patel Knows the Crop Doesn't Read Spreadsheets
The NorCal Cannabis co-founder has spent more than two decades turning instinct, regulation and agricultural reality into an operating system. His enduring lesson is simple: the model matters, but the living business gets the last word.
Peter Sullivan Put the Lottery in Your Pocket. Then He Took the Long Way Out.
A daily detour for his father’s lottery numbers became a 13-year lesson in product design, patient regulation and knowing when to hand over the ticket.
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.
Canopy Growth Spent Billions Chasing Cannabis Everywhere. Now It Has to Win Somewhere.
The Canadian pioneer turned a C$5 billion war chest into a sprawling global experiment. After closures, write-downs and a strategic retreat, its comeback now rests on a less glamorous idea: grow better flower, sell it through channels it controls and stop confusing reach with a business.
The $7.1 Billion Tobacco Challenger Betting Its Next Act Fits in a Pouch
ITG Brands was assembled from century-old labels and a modern divestiture. Now America's third-largest tobacco company is using the reach of Winston, Kool and Backwoods to chase growth in oral nicotine - while regulation keeps rewriting the map.