Business View Magazine | November 2019

237 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 The global leader in the Fluid & Control System Industry ALBERTA 2407-96th Street Edmonton, AB T6N 0A7 866-509-4484 ONTARIO Unt B17. 1600 Industrial Road Cambridge, Ontario N3H 4W5 519-653-9563 www.hylok.ca V I TAL I S EXTRACT ION TECHNOLOGY terrible negotiation- why?’ When they informed me they had a license from the government to grow cannabis, I laughed and ushered them out of my office. Turns out they were legit. So, we became landlords of one facility, then another, and learned a lot about the market and a need that was emerging with a lot of smart cannabis guys raising money but not knowing how to proceed. So Pete and I formed a consulting firm to help entrepreneurs put business plans together and look at different opportunities. That gave us an accelerated education in a lot of different markets. Neither of us are experts in the cultivation side, so we steered clear of that and got into equipment finance, a plant food company - the pick and shovel side of things. A ton of money was being spent on extraction machines, but there was universal frustration from us, the financiers of the machines, because it was hard to get them quickly; hard to get straight answers on how they worked, or what the price would be. “They’d tell us the machine was $175,000