This Facebook Alum's Gum Startup Is Chewing Off A Piece Of CA's $2.7B Medical Cannabis Market
Last year Jake Heimark launched Plus Gum, a Palo Alto-based company with 10 employees that makes cannabis-infused chewing gum. The gum costs $15 for a pack of six pieces, each containing 25 milligrams of THC and just five calories. After working at Facebook FB -2.28% and payment platform company Gumroad, he was searching for a startup opportunity in a fast-growing field. In this edited and condensed interview, he describes how he found his way to cannabis, the challenge of learning how to make chewing gum and why he thinks his company can become one of the biggest players in legal cannabis.
Susan Adams: Tell me about what you did before founding Plus Gum.
Jake Heimark: I graduated from Brown University in 2011 with a bachelor of arts in economics and a bachelor’s of science in biology. Then I went to Facebook in Austin, TX...
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