Marijuana?

Bonnie: Where did the idea for a hydroponics business come from? You must have known something about it before you went to California in 1981.

Scott: I was keeping company in Tacoma with a bad crowd, one individual in particular. Dave was a creep, a walking medicine cabinet.

I had been working for a success motivation company and contacted a local dinner theater that was interested in employee training. I was so convincing that the owner, Rocky, asked me to take over the operation of the bar on a partnership basis. I met Dave because he was the manager of the restaurant. It shouldn’t be a surprise, but the bar became so successful, the entire operation was shut down because I was selling too much liquor and Dave wasn’t selling enough food. I drank my fair share in the process, of course.

Dave and I started talking about what we would do next and Dave mentioned hydroponics. I asked him what that was. He had an idea for making units that he would sell to marijuana growers. If what he said was true, I saw the potential for growing food, not drugs. I asked him to show me a unit. He did, but it didn’t work, so I took the concept and developed it to the point where it did work. I made a scale model to take with me to California. Things were booming in San Jose in the Silicon Valley and I figured that would be the place to find investors. As I said before, I flew to California with a $1.15 in my pocket.

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