# Stock Cropper Stream-of-Consciousness

## Should I partner with Zach?
## Is Zach the right person to partner with?
## What is the vision, in terms of:
### Finances, stake, shares, etc.?
### Geography
### Timeline / time-to-market


## Is this even the right path to go down?

# What are the facts?

- Went to ACRES Field day
- Met with the Stock Cropper guy
- He's been in a bind, his manufacturing partner backed out, so he's looking for engineering support. He's not an engineer.
- I've seen his idea and it really does look interesting, it allows for pasturing at a small scale and leveraging edge-effect on corn
- But his engineering partner has taken him for a ride, frankly.
- He and I talked and we see the same sort of thing: need to scale back the tech, lean it up
- We aren't eye-to-eye on how much of a "finished polished bulletproof product" that needs to be offerred but there is room to align this
- I think he gives a steadier hand and brings some branding/sales/networking to the table that I would desperately need
- I bring the ability to technically drive the product to be what it needs to be
- Still need to find manufacturing partners, but it's going to be leaner if the design is at least under the same roof
- We will be calling and revisting sometime Friday.
- Jason Mauck, host of the field day, wanted to call and catch up with something. I don't know what this is in regards to exactly, but he might be trying to get a company going to build equipment for his relay cropping.

In parallel
- On Saturday and Sunday I woke up with this nagging thought that the engineering is getting in the way of me farming.
- Monday that wasn't there, I was just up and got going
- Tuesday I awoke with a weird thought that I actually can't recall. It was something to do with perfectionism or something.

- Sunday, talked with Jonathan about it. Got some good things to think about as to what questions I should be asking.
- I also mentioned the sensation on Sat/Sun.
- Independently he brought up religious life. Mentioned that I have thought about it. And I was going to visit a few monasteries this summer in KS/OK. Mentioned my reservations - mostly that there's just this disconnect from work.

# So what am I pondering?

0. What path do I need to take?

To answer this -
1. Where do I focus my energies and limited time?
2. What questions do I need to be asking?
3. What am I not seeing?

# Questions to ask Zach
- Financial
	- Is there buy-in?
	- Is there room to be paid?
	- Have you worked out price points?
	- Right now all you have is a waitlist... no deposits or any actual $$$ ?
- Timeline
	- Is this full time?
	- Do I need to move?
- Ethos
	- FOSH?
	- Are you Christian? What is your core north star?
	- How are you vetting investors, how much say do they have?
- Skillset / bring to the table?
	- It sounds like you have sales experience...

# Jordan
"It has very little to do with my abilities or what I accomplish... it has more to do with will and grace"
"The acts that I assent to are actually God's acts..."