Entrepreneurship

386: The First Startup Incubator Facility Dedicated to Ag Robotics

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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385: Carbon Robotics Founder on Their $70M Raise and “Robots-As-A-Service”

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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The 2024 Acre Awards – Part 2

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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The 2024 Acre Awards – Part 1

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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380: Buying (Then Building) A Small Business in Ag with Cody Agee

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Cody Agee is the Owner & CEO at Sierra Dairy Laboratory. After getting his degree in finance and a career in investment banking at J.P. Morgan, Cody decided to search for a business to buy. He ended up acquiring Sierra Dairy Laboratory and joins the podcast to tell the whole…

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378: Founder of Tractor Beverage Travis Potter on His New Venture

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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377: Scaling a Simple Idea into Successful AgTech with Tracey Wiedmeyer, CEO of Gripp

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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374: Contrarian Thinking in AgTech & Robotics with Chris Laudando, Founder of L&A

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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373: Growth Through Acquisition with Kyle McMahon, Founder & CEO of TractorZoom

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Kyle McMahon is the founder of Tractor Zoom and leads the company as CEO. Kyle is a 3rd generation entrepreneur and actively farms in southeast Iowa. Prior to starting Tractor Zoom, he was the Director of Acquisitions for Summit Agricultural Group where he led a team to buy and sell farmland…

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371: Scaling a Cover Crop Seed Business with Joe Gardiner, Co-Founder of Covers & Co.

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Joe Gardiner is the Co-Founder of Covers & Co., a cover crop and forage seed supplier dedicated to helping farmers implement the Principles of Nature into their operations to improve soil resiliency & farm profitability. — This episode is presented by Corteva Agriscience. Learn more HERE. — Links Covers &…

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