@bcurren

Entrepreneur, investor, coder, life long learner. Contributing @forbes writer on Cannabis Tech. Founder of @greenbits, @outright, and esomnie.

 Sarasota, FL
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Joined April 2008
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@Jason11 Jul 2021
This Bezos song is not a banger
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Exciting news! @greenbits is merging with @dutchie and @leaflogix while raising a 200M round of funding valuing the combined company at more than 1.7B. It's crazy when 7 years of hard work and risk pay off. What to do next? I'm lost now:) #cannabis news.crunchbase.com/news/can…

Cannabis Technology Platform Dutchie Rolls Up $200M Series C To Hit $1.7B Valuation

The company enables cannabis buyers to learn about cannabis, what works for them, and what is available at their nearest dispensary.

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What's next for New York cannabis legalization? Check out my thoughts on the legalization debate. What do you think? forbes.com/sites/bencurren/2…
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Loving the new dev experience! Great job team.
Grouparoo@grouparoo26 Feb 2021
We are on the front page of Hacker News! We are excited to announce a huge leap forward in the dev experience of building integrations with cloud-based tools. Being declarative makes it 10x easier so engineers can focus on what is important. buff.ly/3kyzOLN
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Grouparoo now supports Snowflake as a source! We can pull in data from your Snowflake datawarehouse and sync that data to all of your SaaS tools. buff.ly/3tca9MI
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Cannabis continues to legalize across the world. Check out my thought on what’s next... forbes.com/sites/bencurren/2…

After Sweeping The Elections, What Comes Next For Cannabis?

An assessment of cannabis legislation under the Biden administration and incoming Congress.

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My deep-dive on the five states voting on cannabis legalization in November. forbes.com/sites/bencurren/2…
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Vermont becomes 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana market mjbizdaily.com/vermont-becom…

Vermont becomes 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana market

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, announced that he would permit legislation to regulate and tax recreational cannabis sales to become law without his signature.

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@semil18 Sep 2020
This feels like a must-read essay by Slootman, Q2 2018, when taking ServiceNow public. There are so many countercultural tech/startup management gems in here, esp about CEOs only making public statements that relate to his/her company. H/T @guruchahal: linkedin.com/pulse/amp-up-fr…

Amp It Up!

As the former CEO of both Data Domain and ServiceNow, two successful tech companies in recent years, I am often confronted with questions: what did you guys do? What is the secret sauce? How did you...

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Nowhere by @NOFXband in 1991. Love this album.
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I never understood this stance. If I wasn’t asked to code in a software engineering interview I’d be worried.
Eric Windmill@ericwindmill3 Sep 2020
I interviewed someone who refused to do a code pairing exercise because "we already know what he can do". After explicitly stating that the entire point of the interview was to see if we'd all enjoy working together everyday. what a power move
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Opportunity for someone looking to join a startup on the ground floor. @grouparoo is looking for a founding engineer to join their 3 person team. They are a strong founding engineering team of 3 and a remote first company. grouparoo.com/about
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I couldn't say it better myself. Boneless chicken wings are just wrong. Need to rename! youtu.be/hQdVrmjBIp0

Man promotes renaming "boneless chicken wings" at Lincoln City council meeting (August 31, 2020)

Ander Christensen tells the Lincoln, Nebraska city council that bon...

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The life of an engineer...
Kelly Vaughn
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Why spend 8 minutes doing a one-time task manually when you can spend 2 hours attempting to automate it?
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It’s Time to Build | Andreessen Horowitz

Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade,...

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I'm also stepping down as CEO of @Greenbits and will continue to guide as the Executive Chairman and Founder. Excited to hand the reigns over to @barrysaik. His extensive background working with scaling is exactly what we need in our next chapter.
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Found this throwback photo from 2015 TechCrunch Disrupt. This is one year after starting @greenbits with @andrewkatz00 and @trobrock in 2014. I can't believe how much the business and we as individuals have grown.
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I spent last weekend in Boca Chica, Texas, visiting SpaceX's manufacturing facilities and speaking with Elon Musk. I have visited a lot of rocket factories, but I've never seen anything like this. arstechnica.com/science/2020…

Inside Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week—and settle Mars

I think we need, probably, on the order of 1,000 ships."

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PDX FOLKS: I know a few people that, unfortunately, got laid off today in Portland. If any company is looking for some solid Engineers or QA peeps, please message me. If you're in Portland and don't mind helping, or know of remote jobs, please RT for reach.
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As a cannabis operator, it can be challenging to work with your state regulator. Check out my most recent article on @forbes to learn some tips and tricks on working with regulators effectively. forbes.com/sites/bencurren/2…
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