Ukrainian, Soviet refugee runs biggest cannabis delivery service in California

By Denys Krasnikov / September 14, 2018

After the family settled down in California in the 1990s, the young Klempner dropped out, worked as a programmer, founded a failed startup, and ended up $100,000 in the red. He repaid his debts running a small software consultancy firm in Ukraine, but he still dreamed of success.

So even after this bumpy entrepreneurial start, Klempner once again plunged into a risky business in the United States: This time he co-founded a tech startup in San Francisco that today claims to be the biggest legal marijuana delivery company in the world.

Topics: International, People, Startups

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Denys Krasnikov

Denys Krasnikov is a Kyiv Post IT reporter. He studied journalism in Zaporizhia National University. Denys can be reached at krasnikov[at]kyivpost.com.

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