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Luna Stower

Luna Stower was employee #1 at Jetty Extracts and at Ispire, two companies that grew from early-stage brands into public-market outcomes. At both, Luna helped shape brand, sales, communications, market positioning, education, partnerships, and the internal systems behind that growth. That gives Luna a builder's view, not a boardroom view, of what gets protected and what gets lost as a brand scales, institutionalizes, and meets public-market pressure. For operators preparing to raise, expand, or sell, that is the difference between growth that compounds value and growth that erodes it.

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Legacy to IPO: How a Cannabis Brand's Story Becomes a Valuation Asset

Oct 22 | 11am PST | 2pm EST

What makes a cannabis brand worth something?

A strong quarter, polished packaging, or compelling pitch deck can get attention. They don’t make a brand defensible.

Real brand value comes from the things competitors can’t easily copy: a product that delivers consistently, a history that is true, customer trust that has been earned, and a team that knows how to carry those things forward as the company grows.

Luna Stower has seen that journey up close. As employee #1 at two cannabis companies that grew from early-stage startups to the public markets, she helped shape the brand, sales strategy, education, partnerships, and internal systems behind that growth.

In this live conversation, Luna will share what gets stronger with scale, what can quietly disappear, and what cannabis leaders should protect before it’s too late.

What we’ll cover

What makes a brand truly defensible: How to identify the product, history, relationships, and customer trust that competitors can’t simply recreate.
Why “premium” isn’t a strategy: How to tell whether your positioning is supported by the product and customer experience, or is just something written on the packaging.
What gets lost during growth: The warning signs that your culture, standards, and brand identity are starting to break down.
The difference between real and borrowed legacy: How to honor where a brand came from without turning cannabis history into a marketing costume.
Where brand and operations meet: Why marketing can’t protect a promise the rest of the business isn’t built to deliver.
How buyers evaluate your story: What retailers, investors, and potential acquirers look for and how they determine whether your claims are credible.
What to fix before you raise, expand, or sell: The practical steps leaders can take now to make growth strengthen the brand instead of diluting it.

Who should attend?

This conversation is for cannabis founders, executives, marketers, and operators who are:

Expanding into new markets
Growing beyond the founding team
Preparing to raise capital
Considering a future acquisition or exit
Trying to protect a legacy or craft brand as it scales
Struggling to explain what makes their brand meaningfully different

Build a Cannabis Brand That Gets Stronger as It Grows

Growth shouldn’t require a brand to abandon what made it valuable in the first place.

Join us for an honest conversation about protecting the product, culture, customer trust, and story behind your brand, so that expansion adds value instead of slowly stripping it away.

What you’ll receive

Everyone who registers will receive the episode recording and the Defensible Cannabis Brand Scorecard, an 11-question assessment designed to show where your brand is truly differentiated and where your positioning may be ahead of your proof.

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Speakers

Luna Stower

Founder | Luna Stower Strategies

Legacy to IPO: How a Cannabis Brand's Story Becomes a Valuation Asset