Dan Rubin
Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz
Barry Katz
4.8 • 946 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Dan Rubin is the visionary founder of Budding Equity Inc. In this episode, Dan shares his journey emerging from the Toronto rave scene and escaping the finance world, into his current work, forming partnerships with major artists and film studios like Paramount, to license intellectual property for cannabis products. Dan recounts path from his first deal to license merchandise for Cheech and Chong, to working with the likes of filmmaker Kevin Smith, hip-hop legend Ice Cube, Brad Williams, Bert Kreischer and more, to transform how the world perceives and consumes cannabis products through entertainment properties.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome back to another episode of Industry Standard with me Barrycats. |
| 0:06.5 | So glad you're here got a great podcast today that's very unusual featuring Dan Rubin, who is the president and CEO of Butting Equity, which is a unique and interesting media company that I think he would like to call the Disneyland of Weed and entertainment. |
| 0:27.0 | He has deals with Ice Cube and Kevin Smith and Brad Williams and doing very, very fascinating things with entertainment |
| 0:39.1 | and media around the themes of cannabis. |
| 0:43.0 | Before I get started, I want to thank you guys so much for all your support. |
| 0:48.0 | You have no idea how incredible you are and how unbelievably grateful I am for all of the things that you send me, that you email me, that you DM me. |
| 1:02.0 | It's just incredible, things you send me. |
| 1:05.0 | And if you need to reach me, if you haven't, |
| 1:09.0 | you can do so at Barry Cats at Instagram or Twitter X, or you can go to my website at Barry Cats.com, |
| 1:18.0 | or you can head on to the YouTube channel |
| 1:21.0 | and subscribe and you can get all these incredible podcasts on video that you can see. |
| 1:30.0 | Next week I'm really, really excited because Tiffany Hattish comes in and does an incredible interview that she did when she came back from Africa. |
| 1:40.3 | So I know you're going to like that a lot and this one today will be very |
| 1:45.7 | inspirational and so when I think of Dan Rubin who is doing this unique cannabis entertainment situation. |
| 1:58.0 | It's fascinating because he's a guy who wasn't even in this business. He was a young kid doing raves and he was doing |
| 2:08.5 | entrepreneurial things but in a way that was not anything having to do with this business. |
| 2:15.0 | Granted that Raves, he probably was around cannabis, |
| 2:19.0 | but probably wasn't thinking how he could monetize it into a situation that could be |
| 2:25.9 | inspirational for people in the entertainment business. And I'm always fascinated by people who switch things up who are comfortable doing what they're doing. |
| 2:39.6 | They're making money with what they're doing. |
| 2:41.3 | They're happy, but they know there's something else within them. |
| 2:47.4 | And they take the leap of faith to go forward and push through and make them happen in a way that's really, really special, but also in a way that is next to impossible to quantify how somebody could actually do that and how somebody could actually |
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