Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Danny Bernstein is the Managing Partner of Reservoir Ventures and the CEO of the Reservoir, an ecosystem of nonprofit and for-profit ventures tackling California’s most urgent challenges and opportunities. Before founding the Reservoir, Danny spent 20 years in Silicon Valley leading business development, partnerships, and developer programs at Google and…
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Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Paul Mikesell is the founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics. Paul has deep experience founding and building successful technology startups. Paul co-founded Isilon Systems, a distributed storage company, in 2001. Isilon went public in 2006 and was acquired by EMC for $2.5 billion in 2010. In 2006, Paul co-founded Clustrix,…
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Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Tune in for our end of year award, recap, and predictions show! Part 2: — This episode is presented by Corteva Agriscience. Learn more HERE. — Links Join the Co-op – https://themodernacre.supercast.com Tegner Mill – https://www.tegnermill.com Polaris Energy Services – https://polarisenergyservices.com Subscribe to the Newsletter – https://themodernacre.substack.com
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Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Tune in for our end of year award, recap, and predictions show! Part 1: — This episode is presented by Corteva Agriscience. Learn more HERE. — Links Join the Co-op – https://themodernacre.supercast.com Zac Ellis Episode – https://themodernacre.com/352 David Friedberg Episode – https://themodernacre.com/351 Ohalo – https://ohalo.com Polaris Energy Services – https://polarisenergyservices.com…
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Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Walt Duflock is a 5th generation California farmer (cattle, wine grapes, leafy greens), 30-year Silicon Valley startup veteran (eBay and 3 other acquisitions), and 7 years as an AgTech Innovation leader at SVG-THRIVE and Western Growers (where he’s focused on solutions for labor, water, and food safety) — This episode…
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Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Mike Hemman is the SVP of Netafim North America. Mike joined Netafim in 2019 as the President of Netafim USA and was promoted to Senior Vice President of North America in 2024. He has been instrumental in driving strategic growth and expanding profit margins through innovative market strategies, customer segmentation,…
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Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Travis Potter is the founder of Tractor Beverage, an innovative beverage company that offered the first and only Certified Organic, Non-GMO beverage solution for foodservice. Travis is now working on his next project – bringing Green Lightning to market. Green Lightning has developed on farm technology that produces liquid fertilizer…
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Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Tracey Wiedmeyer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gripp. From independent growers to national co-ops, Gripp is focused on providing the ultimate platform for connecting operations teams, keeping tabs on their equipment whereabouts, interactions, and bringing organization to their unique collection of operational knowledge & routines. — This episode is…
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Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Big announcement! Tyler and Tim are joining Polaris Energy Services as CEO and Head of Corporate Development, respectively. They break down all of the details of the move and share more about how Polaris enables California farmers to get paid and save more money. — This episode is presented by…
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Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Chris is the Founder and President of L&A, his third start-up in the AgTech space. He previously founded Robodondo, which was acquired by Motivo Engineering in 2017, then built & rapidly grew Motivo’s B2B AgTech business into their primary vertical and led early market research for the technology that would…
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