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title: "SXSW 2019 - Grit Daily Interviews Start-Up Company CitizenGrown"
description: "Austin, Texas - GritDaily is in SXSW 2019! Our Managing Editor Stewart Rogers sits down with Redg Snodgrass, CEO / Co-Founder of Citizen Grown together with Alan Solow of Resolute Consulting and Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan as they discuss about their new company, CitizenGrown, that's launching in a month. CitizenGrown is a San Francisco-based company that plans to create a network of residential cannabis farmers by providing them with grow systems and handling the sale of the flower. CitizenGrown would supply each home with a 5×5 hydroponic automated grow system at no cost to the home owner. The company would then manage and monitor the tech-enabled grow systems. Once weed is ready for harvest, CitizenGrown will sell it to local dispensaries and split the revenue with the home grower (to the tune of $1,000 to $3,000 per month). According to Snodgrass, the former CEO of Readwrite and Wearable World, the company initially raised a “friends and family round” and just closed a seed round at the end of 2018. The formal launch of CitizenGrown is planned for April. #SXSW2019 #CitizenGrown #GritDaily Subscribe to GritDaily on YouTube: https://goo.gl/jcuz9X Website: https://www.gritdaily.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GritDaily/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GritDaily Instagram: https://instagram.com/gritdaily/ Grit Daily is the top source for news coverage on brands, fashion, tech, influencers, entrepreneurship, and life."
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# SXSW 2019 - Grit Daily Interviews Start-Up Company CitizenGrown

**Speaker:** [Redg Snodgrass](https://www.speakrphone.com/Redg.md)
**Date:** 2019-04-01

Austin, Texas - GritDaily is in SXSW 2019! Our Managing Editor Stewart Rogers sits down with Redg Snodgrass, CEO / Co-Founder of Citizen Grown together with Alan Solow of Resolute Consulting and Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan as they discuss about their new company, CitizenGrown, that's launching in a month.

CitizenGrown is a San Francisco-based company that plans to create a network of residential cannabis farmers by providing them with grow systems and handling the sale of the flower.

CitizenGrown would supply each home with a 5×5 hydroponic automated grow system at no cost to the home owner. The company would then manage and monitor the tech-enabled grow systems. Once weed is ready for harvest, CitizenGrown will sell it to local dispensaries and split the revenue with the home grower (to the tune of $1,000 to $3,000 per month).

According to Snodgrass, the former CEO of Readwrite and Wearable World, the company initially raised a “friends and family round” and just closed a seed round at the end of 2018. The formal launch of CitizenGrown is planned for April.

\#SXSW2019 #CitizenGrown #GritDaily

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## Topics
- cannabis cultivation
- hydroponics
- startup company
- cannabis industry
- Automated agriculture

## Resources
- [YouTube - SXSW 2019 - Grit Daily Interviews Start-Up Company CitizenGrown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovd3BiRiW7M)