What Cannabis Taught Me About Building Businesses
Cannabis taught me business. For more than 15 years I built companies in an industry where you have to find the opportunity, win the licence, fund it, build it, open it and make it profitable — often while the rules change underneath you. Cannabis became my expertise. Building businesses became…
The Common Thread Behind Everything I’ve Built
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Sara Gullickson is a cannabis entrepreneur, investor and corporate dealmaker who entered the industry in 2010, became the first woman CEO of a U.S. publicly traded cannabis company, and has founded, sold, launched, built or advised more than 100 companies across 15-plus years. She is dyslexic, a single mother…
Modern Investment Opportunities: How the Last Decade Reshaped the Landscape
In the past decade, we've witnessed exciting transformations in the investment landscape. Concepts that once seemed unconventional, like regulated licensing and infrastructure-focused business models, are now pivotal to value creation. Recognizing these shifts is not just an intellectual exercise; it’s essential for navigating the future and discovering where the next…
Market Insight: Sara’s Hot Take on What’s Next
Five Sectors That Will Define 2026 and Beyond
Looking ahead, these are five sectors where I believe structural shifts, regulatory tailwinds, and new technologies will combine to generate meaningful value. These aren’t speculative ideas — many are already underway.
From my own experience, I’ve learned that the best returns rarely…
Why More Investors Are Choosing Control Over Scale Right Now
For more than a decade, scale was treated as a proxy for quality in private investing. Larger funds, larger rounds, and increasingly complex capital structures were often interpreted as signals of legitimacy, discipline, and inevitability, as though size alone could smooth over uncertainty or compensate for weak fundamentals. In a…
Why Cannabis Is Quietly Becoming an Alternative Asset Class
For much of its modern history, cannabis investing was framed almost exclusively through the lens of growth. Early projections emphasized rapid expansion, national rollouts, and consumer demand curves that mirrored traditional retail or technology narratives. That framing attracted capital, but it also created expectations that the market was structurally incapable…