Business View Magazine - Sept 2023

75 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 9 BENZ INGA He adds that the company these days has a major focus on artificial intelligence (or AI). Benzinga makes a point to cover markets often neglected by Yahoo Finance and Bloomberg, and that translates to some 50 million readers a month for Benzinga. “Benzinga Cannabis was built by my colleague, Javier, from the editorial side,” Lane continues. “Javier and his team have created 30-40 articles a day for several years now on the cannabis space, and we are probably the largest business and financial publication, if not one of the largest overall publications, covering the space.” “We are the most-read cannabis news source in the world,” Hasse declares. Lane concurs, adding the company is also much involved in the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference. “We have already put on 15 iterations of this,” he says. “We started in 2018 in person. Then throughout COVID, we had several that were