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Will Kleidon is an award-winning pioneer and futurist in the hemp and cannabis industry. He is known for cracking the CBD code by creating the cleanest and most effective CBD-rich hemp products on the planet. Will is the founder of Ojai Energetics, a triple bottom line-driven cannabis technology company. Will has collected one of the most interesting executive boards in the world that includes famous athletes, doctors, and well-connected members of the entertainment industry. Featured in Rolling Stone, Cheddar, MSNBC, Forbes, Inc, Money, Entrepreneur, The LA Times, Will is a subject matter expert when it comes to the art, science, and technology of the cannabis business, the history of hemp, and what it can mean to our future. Regenerative Systems Will believes hemp is a major catalyst for aiding humans to create regenerative systems that will help us live in symbiosis with the planet. Hemp has over 40,000 uses from soil to unique contributions and positive inputs for our ecosystem’s regenerative health. It can clean contaminated soil, build healthy soil, help sequester C02, and transition us from petroleum and plastics to hemp-based supercapacitors. The Endocannabinoid System Will’s extensive research and contributions to understanding the endocannabinoid system are vast. He speaks regularly on the science of how the endocannabinoid system functions and its unique aspects discovered from Ojai Energetics’ technology and research. In a partnership with Steven Kottler and Flow Research Collective, the leading experts in flow states and human performance, Will is leading new studies on the relationship between the endocannabinoid system and flow. Innovation Will is a leading inventor in the cannabis space. He has developed the most robust IP catalog for cannabis which includes the antidote to THC intoxication, cannabinoids for space travel, generating supercapacitors from hemp, and 30 second acting edibles. Solutionary Perspective Ojai Energetics is one of the first public benefit corporations in the space and is leading a triple bottom line approach to businesses being a force of good. Combining the triple bottom line with appropriate technology, Ojai Energetics is innovating with cannabis and regenerative agriculture techniques. With Will at the helm, Ojai Energetics is leading how businesses can be a force of good where all ships rise in a symbiotic system.
Will Kleidon
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Their future opinion of your business rides on how you respond to their concerns. It's no secret that unhappy customers can have a negative effect on your business. All it takes is a slew of negative Yelp reviews or low star ratings to ruin a business’s reputation. But the reviews themselves aren’t always what have the biggest impact — it's all about the way the business responds to unsatisfied buyers. That's why it's so important to address customer concerns when they occur and attempt to turn the situation around. To shed some light on how to do so properly, 12 Rolling Stone Culture Council members explain the smartest things you should do first when you have an unhappy customer and why.
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For these business leaders, hindsight is 20/20. Starting a business can be an intimidating undertaking, especially when it’s your first one. You’re often feeling imposter syndrome in full force, and no matter how much planning and research you do ahead of time, rarely does any aspect of business go how you’d expect. Because of this fact, for many entrepreneurs, hindsight is 20/20. Now with established careers and businesses, they can better reflect on what may have gone wrong or what they could have done better when they first started out. Below, a panel of 14 Rolling Stone Culture Council members share the lessons they wish they had known when starting their businesses and how that knowledge may have helped them grow along the way.
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Ojai Energetics PBC
Company bio
Ojai Energetics owns the world’s most robust patent portfolio for cannabis. Ojai supplies CBD and THC patent-protected, shelf-stable, and water-soluble cannabis ingredients. The water-soluble technology makes for a 30-Second effect and benefit, not 30 minutes for traditional oil-based products.