278. Scaling Lessons, Pivots, and Growing Inside Corrections w/ David Flynn

In this episode of CropTalk, we sit down with David Flynn, CEO of AmplifiedAg, a Charleston-based company building technology and systems for container farming and grow room operations. David spent 25 years as a U.S. Army officer, earned the Silver Star, and found his way into CEA through founder Don Taylor after settling down in Charleston in 2015. We walk through the full arc of Amplified AG, from six containers in Summerville, SC to 160 containers in Columbia, SC and how that journey shaped a sharper, more focused company on the other side of it. We get into what the distribution reality looked like at scale, what ultimately drove the pivot back to technology, and what David now tells every operator who asks how to grow. We also cover a USDA Vegetable Research Lab partnership that expanded what he thought was possible inside a controlled grow room, and the project he is most proud of: a container farm and workforce certification program inside a South Carolina correctional institution that reduced recidivism risk and turned a profit.