UP056: Kush.com // a budding B2B marketplace for legal hemp and cannabis transactions

Summary: Interview begins: 5:30 Debrief begins: 48:09 Chase Nobles is a co-founder and co-CEO of Kush.com. Seattle-based company Kush.com is a platform that allows entities within the hemp and cannabis industries to interact and buy and sell product. Kush.com has become one of the principal sites in the trading of cannabis and hemp goods and continues to strive to lead these markets. Chase tells us how Kush.com has progressed from a tourism and media business to the platform it is today. He walks us through how he and his team have built a thriving network based in quality relationships and legal product, as well as some of their focuses for the future. We discuss: - Chase's experience at the Air Force Academy and how this brought him to Seattle (5:40) - The start of Kush as Kush Tourism (10:13) - Kush's transition from tourism and media to marketplace (16:20) - The Kush.com domain (18:00) - The evolution of Kush.com as a marketplace (21:00) - Maintaining trust and quality relationships within the marketplace (22:45) - Transactions made on Kush.com (25:28) - Regulating products and onboarding new customers in different market locations (28:00) - Kush.com finances and fees, and finding marketplace balance (31:28) Kush.com was founded in 2016 and based in Seattle. Learn more about Kush.com: https://kush.com Follow upside on Twitter: https://twitter.com/upsidefm