1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield

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Nathan Latka

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🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Brendan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Skycision, an award-winning technology provider that helps enhance the productivity and profitability of the global agriculture industry.

Brendan completed his undergraduate degree at the country’s oldest private military school, Norwich University. He played four years of collegiate football and emerged with his B.S. in Computer Security and Information Assurance. From there, he joined Big-4 financial services firm Ernst & Young (E&Y) and worked over a dozen engagements across Florida and the Asia Pacific region. Shortly thereafter, he joined global investment bank Credit Suisse in New York.

Brendan decided to go back to school and was admitted to the number one Information Systems Management program in the country at Carnegie Mellon. It was there that Skycision was conceived, and upon finishing his degree, he set out full time to build Skycision into what it is today.

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0:00.0	founded skycision throwing his hat into the ring of the very popular drone industry.
0:04.6	It can be dangerous. You can get lost very easily and find yourself competing with big
0:07.8	companies. He's hedged that risk by going and hyper-focusing on high-yield crops, where if he
0:12.8	solves the problem, it's worth a lot of money. Specifically, he's focused on Napa Valley.
0:16.9	And even more specific, obviously, they're on vineyards and vineyard production and output, especially on indicators that, you know, farmers or folks working these vines can't see by themselves visually.
0:26.6	So good stuff.
0:27.6	They're currently working with about 11 different brands across many hundred different farms, thousands of acres.
0:32.8	Each farm or each brand paying about a grand per month.
0:35.1	So 11 grand in revenue growing fast, hoping to, you know to double or triple that here by the end of the year.
0:40.2	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got filthy rich or crash and burn.
0:51.5	Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information
0:57.0	that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to
1:03.0	$2.7 million. I had no money when I started the company. It was $160 million, which is the size of any
1:09.0	IPOs. We're a bit strapped. We have like 22,000 customers.
1:14.2	With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling
1:20.2	us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's
1:26.4	episode.
1:28.0	Hello, everyone.
1:30.3	My guest today is Brendan Carroll.
1:34.2	He's the co-founder and CEO of Skycision, an award-winning technology provider that helps enhance the productivity and profitability of the global agriculture industry.
1:39.2	Brendan, are you ready to take us to the top?
1:41.0	Absolutely.
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