Michael "BigMike" Straumietis is the multi-millionaire owner of Canada-based Advanced Nutrients. It is one of the largest and most prominent marijuana nutrient supliers in the world. Needless to say, that success has made him see a lifestyle most of us can only dream of: private jets, scantily clad women, and lots of cannabis. He's most often compared to Instagram's Playboy King Dan Bilzerian.

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1. Born in Portland, Oregon, his mother became a drug addict after his father died when he was a teenager. But today, he's the biggest tycoon in the marijuana industry.

2. He revealed that he had been growing grass and working with businesses since he was 19-years-old.

3.“I studied really hard to make this company grow. I calculated it once, I spent over 21,000 hours in reference libraries of colleges studying just the plant section."

4. "I have from 80-100,000 hours studying business and doing business and because of that I was able to build an empire."

5. He is one of three companies in the world to have a license from the actual government to grow grass."

6. He goes out of his way to make sure the growers who buy from him get the perfect plants.

7. “It sounds like bragging sometimes, but fuck it man. I’ve spent a fortune on getting these plants right."

8. “I have 23 PhD guys racking their brains trying to optimize the genetic potential of cannabis and because of that, we do it better than anyone else.”

9. “Everything that you have is riding on that crop, and it has to come in for you to be successful. I’ve been there. I’ve had my fucking doors kicked in. I’ve been chased down by the DEA and US Marshals for 10 years of my fucking life. I know that life and I’m glad that I don’t have to live it anymore.”

10. The marketing and branding of the medical marijuana industry will be a very interesting shift.

11. “Marijuana is 10,000 things, there is so much that we can do with the plant.”

12. He needs more pictures on Instagram.