Eric Jasinski
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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I've onboard a lot of customers. That's one of the things I do. And I've sort of a lot of that conversation at the beginning is like, what are you doing today? What are we bringing over? Sort of what'd you do in the past? And I think a lot of folks use QuickBooks or whatever it is because they know that they should be doing something, right? And they've used it.
They've got a history with it, but that doesn't necessarily mean they have a good history with it, right?
Yeah. Hey, my name is Eric Jasinski. I work here at Ambrook. We are a farm bookkeeping platform, financial management platform. And yeah, I work on the product team with our customers and I like highways. And I like highways.
We have one office of ours that is in Manhattan and that's where I'm sitting from. And then we have another office in Denver and then we've got some folks from
california down to well the bottom of california um so other parts of california so when we talked earlier this week were you in denver no i was in california actually i was visiting some uh some colleagues up in uh san francisco yeah that looked not manhattan-ish wow no what gave it away the
That was the sirens that we're missing. Ah, too quiet up there. Yes.
Yeah. I mean, I think that, you know, the thing about working in ag for us anyways, is like, if you're really working in ag at large, you're kind of going to be a little bit of everywhere. And so sometimes it's actually more useful to be near an airport. So you can like get out to people, visit them.
Um, you know, we've got, uh, we've got folks down in Texas, we've got folks in California, we've got folks in Florida. Um, and we try as often as we can to get and visit them. And so, um, that's kind of like how I think about it anyways. Definitely, definitely makes some sense. Um, you know, before, before I was at Ambrook, I used to work in ag out in, um, California, um,
up near Palmdale, um, a little outside of LA. And so definitely spent some time, some time out there on the farm. But, um, yeah, these days I got folks back in New York and so I found myself, um, coming home, but just this way and, uh, feel fortunate to get to, you know, still stay in the, stay in the industry, but sort of spread, spread my wings.
No, I was not a farm kid. I grew up outside of New York as well. And the way I got into ag was actually a little bit backwards. I used to work in finance, sort of like budgeting, forecasting, operations, spreadsheets in the cannabis industry, actually, starting in 2017. And so I did that for a while.
And then basically what happened was I was making all these budgets for all these farms that we worked with and eventually I was like, damn, I got to figure out why we're, why we're not hitting the budgets that I'm making. And so I went out to the farm in California and, um, spent about three years working in a greenhouse out there.
So going to the office day to day, I mean, it's not, you know, I say farm, maybe I'm being a little, a little charitable, but there's a greenhouse, there's water, there's nutrients. We're doing a lot of trimming and plant caretaking and stuff like that. And so, yeah, that's, that's how I got into it. And basically doing everything I do at Ambrook except for one operation back then.
And a couple of years ago, I decided I wanted to do it for other farms too. And here we are.
Yeah. I mean, you know, uh, I went to a school that, that has a film program is what I would say. And I think, uh, spent some time in the spreadsheets and then I found out there were these classes you could take to walk movies. And I signed up for those and turned out, turned out pretty good. And then they gave me a diploma and it said film on the bottom.
Next thing you know, you went to film school. Um, and, uh, you know, I think that gets, uh, everyone likes movies, right? So it's been a blessing.
We would have better quality. Three movies a week, and you're going to get a diploma sent to you in the mail.
Yeah, that's all.
Yeah, so Ambrook makes software that is bookkeeping and accounting software specifically designed for farms or I guess the ag industry in general, so farms specifically. ranches, you know, veggie, CSA type operations, you name it. But basically trying to design something to help you track your expenses and look at your profitability at the sort of whole enterprise level.
Ambrick started back in 2020, actually, right around COVID. Backstory was trying to help farmers get grants from the CFAP program during COVID and did a lot of that, facilitated probably, you know, upwards of $1,000 Grant applications for small farms trying to get by during that time. And then the sort of key takeaway there was that terms out applying for grants is actually a lot of paperwork and
Turns out that farmers hate paperwork and don't really want to pull together P&L and don't really have a balance sheet handy. And so sort of once that job was done, the next thing to do is really just build financial management software and sort of take a bottoms-up approach.
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