Hi everyone. I'm Zoya Husson and I'm here with Ryan Smith, a Forbes 30 Under 30 Lister.

Ryan, thank you so much for joining us. Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm really excited to be here.

Yeah, you made our list for Leaf Link, which was a company in the cannabis industry and now you've

started something brand new in a very different industry.

So tell me a little bit about what you were building over at LeafLink and what you're

doing now.

Yeah.

So back in 2016, we started Leaflink, which is still around doing really well.

We built a B2B wholesale marketplace for legal cannabis companies. We basically streamlined the way dispensaries purchased their wholesale inventory.

And we grew it over the last nine, ten years to have 80% market share.

So, you know, four out of five things sold in the US go through Leaflink.

We raised a few hundred million dollars for that business.

But it was all about enterprise commerce and back office transactions,

like the things that are often overlooked but help businesses run and are the key to their

success. And so after being there for almost a decade, decided to transition out to a board

role. We brought in a new CEO, which was doing a great job, and started focusing on something new at Murrah.

And what exactly is this something new? Tell me more.

Yeah. So when we started Leaflink, it was in a very new industry, an industry that I enjoyed, made most people feel uncomfortable.

Cannabis had just gone legal in Colorado and somehow today it's still

federally illegal and so it was a really underserved industry. But at the end of the day,

entrepreneurs who needed tools, they needed software, they need solutions. So we built that for

them. When we were looking to build something new, really excited to be partnered with our

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