. three point five to four dollars a kilogram. on this subsidized plates on their airplane and it. didn t bring it down. as a result farmers are leaving. this flour grower abandon operations here to move to ethiopia lower cost operations in the north are endangering the industry in kenya along with jobs and economic growth a continued exodus of companies would be bad news for the flourishing flower sector in kenya. the tatts market and hanoi as old city is awash in red and gold the colors of the tents or new year s festival red is for luck and gold for wealth in the new year. for retailers it s the most important shopping season as people buy gifts for their loved ones and decorations for their
xeljanz can reduce the symptoms of ra, even without methotrexate, and is also available in a once-daily pill. ask about xeljanz xr. time for winners and losers. winner, the u.s. flower industry which will sell something like $2.6 billion worth of arrangements this mother s day. i will tell you that my wife is more interested in me propping up the u.s. jewelry industry. to each their own. loser, the swamp, again. and the long-suffering hockey fans of the swamp watching their caps go down again, not good. bret: loser, me, wearing that jersey right before the final game. congratulations to pennsylvania, the penguins, pittsburgh, they
i grew up on a farm in indiana. it was corn and soybean. but i ended up in san francisco. i was in hospitality and they would buy a lot of flowers. so i just started researching the flower industry to find out why the flowers we were buying cost so much. i found that 80% of the flowers that are sold in the u.s. are imported. and the second issue i d never thought about is waste. 40% of the flowers that are grown are never sold. they end up in compost bins. i was like, okay, let s figure out a solution to all of these. that s how i came up with farm girl flowers. our model is that we offer one daily arrangement made of 100% american grown flowers. everything that we buy, we re going to use them, we re not going to throw them away. the other side what that does for us is allow us to offer designer quality arrangements at generic e-commerce prices. we re doing really, really well. i need to pinch myself for something that s pretty amazing. i ve always been environmentally
so you can focus on what you do. we ll handle the legal stuff that comes up along the way. legalzoom. legal help is here. welcome to farm girl flowers. i grew up on a farm in indiana. corn and soybeans. but i ended up in san francisco. i was in hospitality and they would buy a lot of flowers. i started researching the flower industry to find out why they cost so much. 80% of the flowers sold in the u.s. are imported. and the second issue i never thought about is waste. 40% of the flowers that are grown are never sold. they end up in compost bins. let s figure out a solution. that s how i came up with farm
it makes me curious about what other products you plan to develop. nine for the product. it has a lot of potential. seven for the pitch only because and maybe it mirrors a little bit of what larry is saying that in addition to knowing what s in it for the entrepreneur sorry for the investors, there s a sense of what s the big dream, right? how are you going to take over the world with this product? what are the big, big goals over the course of the next four, five years and beyond, and i love a pitch that makes me dream, and i think that is the one thing that was perhaps missing most of all. if i were to add, go back to what i said, the mobile first generation. companies like bloom that are reinventing the flower industry. you think why do we need another flower delivered. that is mobile first. i would love to hear what makes you different. how are you going to take over godiva with the new first mobile first asset. thank you. and thank you both for your advice. i bet you can