Joe Montana

The world of the NFL is not just about touchdowns and tackles; it’s also home to some of the most astute investors in the sports world. As the 2024 NFL Draft in Detroit approaches, let’s shift the spotlight from the gridiron to the boardroom, where these athletes make huge financial...

Entrepreneurs are often too obsessed with the outcome. That’s not necessarily the right thing to do, explains Herb founder and CEO Matt Gray whose mission is to pay it forward and inspire 10 million entrepreneurs to live their dreams. Amidst a slowing economy, Gray urged entrepreneurs to...

Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Steve Young recently made headlines off the gridiron by announcing his HGGC private equity firm is investing $300 million in registered investment advisors. Young will serve as the chair of the new platform, which will be called Aspire Holdings. Since his...

Adapt Brands, a Santa Monica, California-based health and wellness company advised by Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Montana, recently launched a new line of hemp-infused coconut waters. The products, dubbed Adapt SuperWater, are available with three different infusions: Original Coconut...

Caliva, one of the largest vertically integrated cannabis companies in California, announced this week it has added a new board member, Jeffry R. Allen, and three new executive team members: Joseph Sequenzia, as Chief Marketing Officer Leann Taylor, as Chief Strategy Officer Drew Kornreich, as...

By Aaron Silverman, President of MediaJel. Will early retirements get the NFL to change its tune on cannabis? On a Saturday evening, about two weeks before the beginning of the 2019 NFL season, 29-year-old Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck stood in front of the press as he often did. This...

mood33, a California of cannabis-infused beverages maker, earlier this week announced a distribution agreement with Caliva. The partnership will expand mood33’s retail presence across California, and will increase its online and direct-to-consumer sales by 400 percent over the next year, the...

In 2017, Benzinga wrote about HERB, a media company boasting social media followership and engagement figures comparable to those seen in mass media outlets like Buzzfeed and Vice. Only a month after that feature, we found out the company had completed a $4.1-million raise led by Lerer Hippeau...

It was all over the media: NFL superstar Joe Montana and Carol Bartz — former CEO of Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) and Yahoo, now owned by Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) — were part of a group that invested $75 million into seed-to-sale cannabis company Caliva. While...

As cannabis legalization continues to spread, competition in the media space is becoming fierce. However, just a handful of outlets are driving most of the traffic. Leading this bunch are High Times, which is set to start trading on the Nasdaq in October with a $250 million valuation through a...