Bryan Dunmire
Builder, partner and operator in new and evolving markets
I’ve spent fifteen years on the operating side of consumer brands, most of it in categories that were being invented while we ran them.
I am currently Chief Operating Officer of Lowell Herb Co. Before that, strategy and product at Lowell Farms Inc., corporate development at Acreage Holdings and e-commerce partnerships at AB InBev. I live in Carmel, California, and coach diving at Stevenson School and Carmel High School.
Essays
Selected writing
A three-part series on what cheap software does to how companies are organized, and what the last general-purpose technology took forty years to teach.
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Part I · Draft
Running on the Old Map
Building custom operational software got about a thousand times cheaper in two years. Buying tools is the small implication.
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Part II · Draft
The Physical Bet
Five American technology companies will spend around seven hundred billion dollars this year on the infrastructure AI runs on. What the money actually buys.
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Part III · Draft
The Missing Layer
Every school in the country is trying to decide whether to lean into AI. They are stuck on the wrong question, and the right one has an answer.
Background
The longer version
Nine or ten things worth writing down: a brand taken to number one in California, a company taken public, a turnaround, a product invented, a factory stood up in ten weeks, a beer wholesaler started and sold. Plus the boards, the advising, and where all of it happened.
Get in touch
Say hello
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