From Silicon Valley to New Mexico Entrepreneurship: "I had the brilliant idea to get a group of investors to back me and a partner and I told them would find a company to buy, would relocate it to New Mexico and unbeknownst to them and me I found a company in New Mexico to purchase and that company was Mioxx and Mioxx was doing water treatment for the US military."

Innovations in Cannabis Cultivation: "One of the issues that we kept running into is plant disease. We would find that we would have a very difficult time growing these plants in high density and doing it economically and the plants were getting diseases just like strawberries will or grapes will or apples will."

Regulation in the Cannabis Industry: "In the cannabis industry even more than food people might be surprised very high level of regulation both in what is on the product when it is delivered to the customer making sure it's free of molds and other pathogens or toxins that could harm people but also what's put onto it because we aspirate or light cannabis that has a different set of health conditions and issues much like tobacco."

Title: The Reluctance to Enter the Cannabis Market

Quote: "They licensed technology and what they didn't know what happened is that Justin Sanchez, their CTO would join me in starting the company and quite frankly the story there is really relevant because he said, look Carlos, I have no interest in cannabis and helping cannabis growers."

The Importance of Building Relationships and Creating an Ambitious Game Plan: "And when you find people who you resonate with, who share your value set, who you believe in, who you trust, those are the folks you really want to work with."

Pandemic Innovations in Chemistry: "In the pandemic, we were giving and selling chemistry to all kinds of folks, including police departments and National Guard and because the nature of what we do is we can generate those oxidants on demand, we were not caught in the same supply chain issues."

Breakthrough in Beekeeping: "We can kill mites very effectively and not harm bees even in their development or larval stage."

"The Environmental Cost of Modern Farming": "What I think some of your listeners might be surprised at is the way in which we do farming today is one of the leading causes of greenhouse gases."

The Ripple Effect of Cannabis Legalization: "I think what's going to happen with cannabis is you and I are gonna have access to cheaper, better, more nutritious tomatoes and strawberries because the cannabis industry became legal."

Investing Locally: "And so this cycle instead of just going to Silicon Valley and getting, you know, $5,000,000 $10,000,000 checks, we spent a lot of time I spent a lot of my time talking with people, not just in New Mexico, but all over that really resonated with what we were trying to do that aligned with what we're trying to do, that I valued them and and they valued us and what we're and so we have some really neat folks."