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Taken in 2013.NationalityAmericanOccupationInfluencer[1]Known\u00a0forco-founder of WeedMapsChildren1Justin Hartfield is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist from Orange County, California. He is a co-founder and general partner at the Ghost Group venture capital firm and was the CEO at WeedMaps before stepping down in 2016[2] to pursue other ventures.Born to a Jewish family,[3] Hartfield founded WeedMaps in 2008 while working at an SEO consultation business.[4][5][6][7][8] WeedMaps allows medical marijuana collectives  to rate their own marijuana dispensaries.[9][10][11] Under Hartfield, WeedMaps grew to nearly two million monthly visitors with a monthly revenue of $1.5 million.[12] Hartfield served as the first CEO of the company until 2016 when he stepped down but remained board chairman of the company.[13][9][14]Hartfield founded the privately held Ghost Group in 2012 and serves as the company\u2019s CEO.[4][15] Through Ghost Group, Hartfield and his business partner Doug Francis launched Emerald Ocean Capital, a venture capital firm in the legal marijuana industry.[4][7][15]In addition to Hartfield\u2019s work in the legal cannabis industry, he has also filled roles as a marketing and search engine optimization expert. From 2010 to 2012, he was the Chief web officer at the publicly traded SearchCore, Inc.[15][16]Board positions and contributions to the industry[edit]Justin Hartfield resides on the boards of NORML and the Marijuana Policy Project. He contributed over $100,000 to the Measure F campaign, which advocates for an open market system for marijuana sales.[13]References[edit]^ “Most Influential 2015: Justin Hartfield”. 23 December 2015. Retrieved 2020-02-26.^ “Doug Francis Succeeds Justin Hartfield as Weedmaps CEO”.^ The Jewish Daily Forward: “How a Jewish Business School Drop-Out Created a Marijuana Empire” by Paul Berger September 17, 2015^ a b c Walter Hickey (June 13, 2013). “Justin Hartfield Is About To Become The First Venture Capitalist Of The Pot Industry”. Business Insider. Retrieved July 5, 2013.^ “5 Questions for Justin Hartfield: Opportunities as Cannabis Industry Becomes ‘Pimply Teenager’“. MMJ Business Daily. June 18, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2013.^ Mike Anderson (May 5, 2011). “Justin Hartfield of WeedMaps”. KNTV NBC Bay Area. Retrieved July 5, 2013.^ a b Chris Rauber (June 5, 2013). “Getting high with a little help from your VC firm”. San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved July 5, 2013.^ Kate Linthicum (May 22, 2013). “New L.A. law on medical marijuana shops faces hazy future”. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 5, 2013.^ a b Vita Reed (June 6, 2013). “VC Firm Launches Legal Cannabis Fund”. Orange County Business Journal. Retrieved July 5, 2013.^ Eleazar David Melendez (June 6, 2013). “Marijuana Venture Capital Fund Launches As Ganjapreneurs Go Mainstream”. The Huffington Post. Retrieved July 5, 2013.^ “California VC Ghost Group launches medical marijuana fund”. AltAssets. June 3, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2013.^ Rebecca Grant (June 5, 2013). “VC firm hopes for high returns with fund for marijuana”. VentureBeat. Retrieved July 5, 2013.^ a b Warren Olney (May 14, 2013). “Can Prop C Help Overturn Citizens United?”. KCWR. Retrieved July 5, 2013.^ “Doug Francis Succeeds Justin Hartfield as Weedmaps CEO”. New Cannabis Ventures. Retrieved 2018-02-05.^ a b c “Meet Justin Hartfield, the Pot Industry’s First Venture Capitalist”. Inc. Magazine. June 13, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2013.^ “Justin Ross Hartfield”. Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved July 5, 2013.[dead link]External links[edit]  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/justin-hartfield-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Justin Hartfield – Wikipedia"}}]}]