Cy Scott, Co-Founder & CEO, Headset - Lit Up Founders

Episode 8

Cy Scott, Co-Founder & CEO, Headset

Catching the entrepreneurial drive early, Cy Scott's first venture was selling Jolly Ranchers on the school bus back in 5th grade. This funded his love of playing video games at his family's store, seeding an early interest in Entrepreneurship and Technology. In the nascent days of the Modern Cannabis Industry, Cy Co-Founded Cannabis Education Site Leafly back in 2010. Starting as a side hustle, Cy and his co-founders grew the company to market success and a successful exit in 2015. Cy, and fellow Leafly co-founders then moved on to start Headset, an industry leading Cannabis Business Intelligence provider. Cy Scott, CEO & Co-Founder, Headset https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyscott/ https://twitter.com/cy_scott https://www.headset.io/ https://www.instagram.com/headset_io/ https://www.facebook.com/headset.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/headset/ https://twitter.com/headset_io Brian Weber, Producer & Host, Lit Up: A Founder's Journey https://linkedin.com/in/briancweber/ https://www.litupfounders.com https://www.facebook.com/LitUpFounders/ https://www.instagram.com/LitUpFounders/ https://www.twitter.com/LitUpFounders https://www.linkedin.com/company/litupmedia/ Listen to the episode here or on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, or RSS to your favorite podcast app.

About the Podcast

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Lit Up Founders
A show about the founders of the Modern Cannabis Industry and the Organizations they are building.

About your host

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Brian Weber

In addition to producing and hosting Lit Up Founders. Brian is the Director of Omnichannel Strategy and Partnerships for Flourish Software, a leading ERP Seed-to-sale Software company serving Cannabis and Hemp operators up and down the supply chain.

Prior to Flourish, through his company Digital Realty, Brian served the Retail and Hospitality Industries as a technology and business consultant focusing on POS, eCommerce, Payments, Loyalty, and other related services for the past 9 years.

In researching the Cannabis Industry, largely because of its Federal status and history in the US, he was fascinated in seeing what the entrepreneurs were building. With his experience as an entrepreneur, supporting entrepreneurship, some background in broadcast radio, and a love for the amazing medium of podcasts (especially "How I built this" by Guy Raz); all converged to create the spark moment that spawned Lit Up Founders. I hope you enjoy!

Brian holds a B.S. in Management Science & Information Systems from Rutgers University Business School. He currently lives in Jersey City, New Jersey with his dog Zeke.