In today's episode we look at the success story of Canopy Growth within the cannabis space, as well as how software helped efficiently expand the company. Roman Kliotzkin is the Senior Manager of Software Development at Canopy. While he thought his time in the marijuana sector was temporary, he takes time to speak with us about the massive expansion from Smith Falls, across-the-nation, through software development.

Time Guide:
00:32 - Introductions
01: 36 - Canopy Growth
01:53 - Owning Subsidiaries
02:43 - Getting into SoftDev
04:15 - Twitch?
07:00 - MMPR & Staying on Top of Legislation
07:55 - Customer Acquisition
08:20 - Regulatory Landscape
08:55 - Ecommerce
09:10 - Selling Online
10:30 - Catalogue Control
11:00 - THC versus CBD
12:26 - Custom Software helps keep track
12:51 - What's new in the space?
13:58 - Efficiency
14:46 - Recreation versus Medicinal
16:49 - Specificity
18:09 - Planting with 'Mom'
18:40 - Every Stage Needs to be Tracked
19:30 - Changes came very quickly
21:17 - Managing the Back-End
22:15 - The government didn't even have enough time
23:25 - Major Regulatory Changes
25:47 - Sign-Off

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Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/romankliotzkin/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/canopy-growth-corporation/
https://www.canopygrowth.com/

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