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Leaders In PaymentsArtie Minson, President & CEO of LeafLink | Episode 365Artie Minson, President and CEO of LeafLink, takes center stage, sharing his journey from New York to the forefront of the cannabis tech industry. As a leader in B2B technology, Artie guides us through LeafLink's innovative ecosystem, connecting licensed cannabis brands and retailers with groundbreaking solutions to industry challenges. Discover how LeafLink is transforming the commerce landscape through its unique "pay on sell-through" tool, easing working capital pressures and ensuring secure payments. Artie's insights into LeafLink's strategic banking innovations reveal a commitment to tackling the underbanked nature of cannabis businesses, promising streamlined operations and efficiency gains in key...2024-11-2124 min
AI: Accounting IntelligenceBalancing AI and Human Insight in Modern FinanceArtie Minson, President and CEO of LeafLink, shares his journey from public auditor to C-suite executive in this insightful discussion. He offers valuable perspectives on the enduring importance of accounting and auditing in an increasingly complex business landscape. Minson also explores the potential impact of AI on the finance profession, emphasizing the continued need for human judgment alongside technological advancements.(00:00) - Introduction and Guest Welcome
(00:39) - Artie Minson's Career Journey
(02:28) - The Value of an Audit Career
(05:26) - Future of Public Audit
(10:04) - Impact of AI on Accounting
(15:02) - AI and the Future of Auditing
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Cannabis InsiderCount Down To SAFER Bank ActWelcome to Cannabis Insider! We're bringing you the latest news and updates from the cannabis industry, as well as exclusive interviews with top executives and industry leaders!
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Featured Guest(s):
Artie Minson, President & CEO - LeafLink
https://leaflink.com/
Morgan Paxhia, Managing Partner - Poseidon Asset Management
https://www.poseidonassetmanagement.com/
⭐ Today's episode is in Partnership with Posiedon Asset Management!
Poseidon was founded by siblings Emily & Morgan Paxhia in 2013, making their first fund one of the longest running dedicated cannabis investment funds. The Poseidon team has focused on a diversified strategy covering a range of company stages and industry subsectors ac...2023-09-2036 min
Proud To Work In CannabisLeafLink’s Journey from Startup to Scaleup: Achieving 50% Market ShareJoin Vangst's Proud to Work in Cannabis podcast as host Karson Humiston chats with LeafLink's Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Ryan Smith, and the company's President and CEO, Artie Minson, on how they achieved 50% market share in the cannabis industry. Discover how LeafLink's innovative marketplace technology replaced outdated transaction methods (i.e. text messages and google sheets), and how they recently raised $100 million in their series D round. Gain insights from their journey, challenges, successes, and future plans in this inspiring and informative episode. Don't miss out on this week's must-listen episode! Produce By Po...2023-04-0542 min
Highly ObjectiveLeafLink, President and CEO, Artie Minson and Executive Chairman, Ryan SmithLeafLink, the cannabis industry's leading B2B technology platform, is standardizing how thousands of brands, distributors, and retailers manage their operations. The Company's industry-defining tools streamline the way legal cannabis businesses create, manage, pay for, and ship their orders. LeafLink's marketplace currently processes approximately $5 billion in annual transactions, representing an estimated 50% of legal U.S. wholesale cannabis commerce.
LeafLink is backed by leading venture capital firms and strategic investors, including Casa Verde Capital, CPMG, Founders Fund, Interplay, L2 Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Nosara Capital and Thrive Capital. LeafLink has raised more than $230 million of equity to date as...2023-02-0831 min
CFO THOUGHT LEADER714: A Career Beneath the Headlines | Christian Lee, CFO, TransfixIn March of 2009, when the economy was still in the clutches of the global financial crisis, Time Warner spun out its subsidiary Time Warner Cable into an independent company. “As we spun off, we paid a massive dividend to the parent of $18 billion, and our central thought became: ‘How do we survive? How do we survive as a newly public company with lots of debt?’” recalls Christian Lee, who at the time was a Time Warner Cable senior vice president and head of the company’s M&A strategy. Over the next several years, Lee says, he e...2021-07-0545 min
MoneyNeverSleeps059: Money Talks #1: Libra vs. Sovereigns, WeWork vs. the World, Uber vs. LondonIn a new format we're trying with MoneyNeverSleeps, we try to get inside the minds of three entrepreneurs by riffing on recent tech news and venture stories. This episode includes a look at central bank ambitions of the sovereigns pushing back on Mark Zuckerberg's crypto project, Adam Neumann's WeWork legacy, and Uber's London problem.
Kindly sponsored by Ireland's fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier Recruitment
In this episode, Pete Townsend and Paul Smyth (artfully filling in for Eoin Fitzgerald) riff on three developments this week in the world of tech and venture capital...2019-09-2629 min