Why AI Is Both Exciting and Terrifying with Bailey Stockdale of Leaf

Leaf Agriculture: https://withleaf.io/

FoA 238: 5 Barriers Limiting Agtech (and the companies breaking through them)

FoA 297: A Case Study in Farm Data Integration with Leaf Agriculture and GROWMARK

Today’s episode brings back Bailey Stockdale of Leaf Agriculture. Bailey has been on the show a couple of times in episodes 238 and 297. In my opinion, he is one of the sharpest and most insightful agtech founders that you’ll find. His company, Leaf, builds data infrastructure for agriculture companies, which means they are behind the scenes in helping to power some of the most important digital tools in agriculture with the data that they need to be valuable. He compares them to other technology companies you might have heard of like Plaid in finance, Twilio in communications, or Stripe in payments.

Every time I talk to Bailey I feel like I leave with insights and more clarity into what’s happening in the world of agtech, and this conversation is a great example of that. Some background on Bailey:

Bailey Stockdale is the founder & CEO of Leaf: food & agriculture’s data infrastructure company. Bailey has worked with food and agriculture technology since 2014 as a software developer, entrepreneur, and EIR at SP Ventures’ AgTech fund. Bailey is passionate about empowering developers that are solving farming, health, and sustainability challenges through food and agriculture technology.