From 1 to 100: How to Successfully Scale a Cannabis Operation
Seed to CEO
English - June 24, 2021 16:00 - 42 minutes - 58 MBBusiness Education How To cultivation business cannabis ceo daily entrepreneur extraction hemp investment marijuana Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode of Seed to CEO, Nicholas Vita, the CEO of Columbia Care, shares with MJBiz CEO Chris Walsh how he started in the cannabis industry with a mom-and-pop dispensary in Washington DC and now heads one of the biggest cannabis companies in the United States, present in 18 states and abroad.
He’ll share:
The importance of learning from the mistakes made along the way. How the company picked and won new markets. How he helped build a company that would attract investor capital to grow even further.Who is Nicholas Vita?
Nick spent six years as vice president at Goldman Sachs and another 10 investing in the health care sector before even considering the cannabis industry. A friend mentioned the potential to him at a party, and his interest was piqued. He left finance and opened his first dispensary in Washington DC in 2013 and quickly expanded to Arizona, Massachusetts and other states.