Dane Cooper
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485 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Feb 2020
last heard 16 Feb
Dane Cooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The majority of them have grown up on a cattle operation.
Yeah.
So Dane Cooper, co-founder of PLA.
We're both natives of North Iowa.
Um,
Similar story.
Grew up on a farm, hog farm, more like yourself, Corey, but had a high interest in cattle and then started raising cattle as a farm in operation and started PLA with Dustin.
So it's been quite the journey, and I feel like it's the best industry in the world, working with farmers, ranchers.
Yeah, it's at an all-time high, I'll tell you that.
So the energy here is, you can tell, it's a great time in the industry.
That's college years.
We're still in college years here.
That's right.
First, I hired Dustin so he could drive me around as we were making sales pitches.
Dustin doesn't tell you this, but his background was he was a history teacher.
Grew up on a farm, but his career was in teaching.
And I'm like, hey.
doing some fun things over here at this startup which was weather bill at the time then it converted to the climate corporation and so convinced him to leave his career and join me flying to san francisco building this digital platform in row crop agriculture right so friedberg former google executive had this vision initially that was about weather insurance
really pivoted the business to saying, hey, we've built all these algorithms and insights.
We're gonna digitize real crop, right?
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