3 October 2024

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Tag: Adam Bierman

  • MedMen (MMEN.C): The Kings of Cannabis are dead but the stink remains

    MedMen (MMEN.C): The Kings of Cannabis are dead but the stink remains

    “In a sector rife with terrible CEOs that have wasted company treasury and goodwill…none come close to Bierman in terms of self enrichment, entitlement, and outward facing douchery,” wrote Chris Parry on January 31, 2020.

  • Do not adjust your TV sets – Heritage Cannabis (CANN.C) is a real business

    Do not adjust your TV sets – Heritage Cannabis (CANN.C) is a real business

    New licenses, deals, products – that’s all good – but it’s not the nitty gritty stuff investors are looking for now. By “nitty-gritty” we mean – numbers. Four weeks ago, Heritage released its Q1, 2020 financials.

  • Aurora Cannabis (ACB.T): is Cam Battley really worth $280 million?

    Aurora Cannabis (ACB.T): is Cam Battley really worth $280 million?

    On December 23, 2019 Aurora Cannabis (ACB.T) share holders’ painful year (the stock is down 65%) got worse with the announcement that ACB Chief Corporate Officer (CCO), Cam Battley is leaving the company to explore other opportunities. “Cam has been an integral part of the development, growth and expansion of Aurora,” stated Aurora CEO Terry…

  • MedMen (MMEN.C): cannabis catastrophe – 5 red flags everyone should have seen

    MedMen (MMEN.C): cannabis catastrophe – 5 red flags everyone should have seen

    MedMen (MMEN.C) owns 33 cannabis retail stores across 9 states. The stores have attractive exteriors, but the business inside is ugly. “MedMen reported another quarter of heavy losses [In Q1, 2020] as the California-based cannabis company scrambles to right-size and avoid bankruptcy,” reported an excellent Grizzle article, “with $11 million of quarterly interest expense against…

  • Los Angeles politician claims cannabis system is grossly unfair

    Los Angeles politician claims cannabis system is grossly unfair

    Los Angles City Councilman Herb Wesson roared into the news this week when he told the City of Los Angeles their cannabis licensing system was  rigged against communities it was supposed to help. He has a point. Los Angeles has already approved 300 cannabis retailers and suppliers.  The avalanche of first-round applicants buried city hall…

  • TSX.V, CSE: Canadian venture capital markets declare “Trudeau Ethics Scandal” weak sauce! 

    TSX.V, CSE: Canadian venture capital markets declare “Trudeau Ethics Scandal” weak sauce! 

    Reading this week’s political headlines, you’d think the media had just unearthed hidden-camera  footage of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a Shanghai strip bar – pockets bulging with gold coins –  giving a hand-job to the CEO of the China Petroleum Corporation (中国石油天然气集团公司). “Will Trudeau take responsibility for ethics breach?” – Ottawa Citizen. “Trudeau violated…

  • MedMen’s (MMEN.C) pre-lim Q4, 2019 good news for the peepz suing them

    MedMen’s (MMEN.C) pre-lim Q4, 2019 good news for the peepz suing them

    If you’ve every tried suing someone who is insolvent, you know how frustrating that can be. U.S. cannabis retailer MedMen (MMEN.C) just announced its “unaudited systemwide revenue figures for Q4, 2019, which ended on June 29, 2019. Although there is an ominous black hole where news of the MMEN’s profitability might be, the August 13,…

  • MedMen (MMEN.C) execs get real fricken nasty (again)

    MedMen (MMEN.C) execs get real fricken nasty (again)

    If you owned a 5% share in a 300-foot yacht, and the captain refused to let you sell your interest – then ran the ship aground – you’d have an idea how early MedMen (MMEN.C) investors, Brent Cox and Omar Mangalji feel. Collectively, Cox and Mangalji own about 19 million shares of MedMen – a…

  • MedMen (MMEN.C) Q3, 2019 revenues and a devastating Rolling Stone article

    MedMen (MMEN.C) Q3, 2019 revenues and a devastating Rolling Stone article

    It’s true: we do enjoy kicking MedMen (MMEN.C) around. Why do we dislike this grotesquely unprofitable company so intensely? Because Adam Bierman (CEO) and Andrew Modlin (President) are greedy. Not – “I-fly-1st-class-and-pay-my-workers-minimum-wage” greedy. Not – “I-cheat-on-my-taxes” greedy. Not – “I’m-unloading-cheap-paper-through-a-numbered-company” greedy. Crazy, almost psychopathically greedy. We dislike them for the same reason we dislike Namaste’s…