Left on Rancho

"It's October 2019 and Andrew Eastman, a tech entrepreneur with a bank account running on fumes, has just ridden into Adelanto, a desolate outpost in the Mojave Desert, to help an old friend. The ask: turn around a fledgling legal weed operation. Andrew, the outsider, asks too many questions -- abou...

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Main Author: Paola, Francesco (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Phoenix, Arizona : SparkPress, 2025.
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Summary:"It's October 2019 and Andrew Eastman, a tech entrepreneur with a bank account running on fumes, has just ridden into Adelanto, a desolate outpost in the Mojave Desert, to help an old friend. The ask: turn around a fledgling legal weed operation. Andrew, the outsider, asks too many questions -- about the viability of the legal market, the inoperative surveillance cameras in the factory, and the dominance of the illegal trade -- and makes himself a target. Undeterred, he journeys from Adelanto to West Hollywood to the underbelly of Los Angeles on a hunt for contraband. When he lands at the intersection of cannabis and immigration, and as the bodies pile up around him, he is left with one last decision -- one that will forever change him."--Page 4 of cover.
Physical Description:336 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:9781684632923
1684632927
Author Notes:Francesco Paola was born in Turin, Italy, and was raised in Italy, Thailand, and Australia before moving to the US, where he earned an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He is an accomplished technology entrepreneur, and from 2019 to 2021 worked at a legal cannabis startup in California while on a sabbatical from tech. He has written technical blogs, white papers, and articles for over twenty-five years as an executive in the tech-startup ecosystem. He and his wife, the novelist Jackie Townsend, have called New York City home since 1999.