Jesse Vollmar is co-founder and CEO of FarmLogs, the leading data science company focused on helping farmers make their fields more profitable. A pioneer in digital farm management, he launched FarmLogs in 2012 out of Silicon Valley's prestigious Y Combinator to transform the oldest and most important industry in the world with cutting-edge software and data science. In less than three years, Vollmar has grown the company to over $15 billion in crops under management and has raised $15 million in capital. Today, over 20 percent of U.S. row crop farms utilize FarmLogs to make real-time field-level decisions. Vollmar grew up on his family's fifth-generation farm in Michigan and graduated from Saginaw State University with a BS in Computer Information Systems. Vollmar was named to the Forbes “30 under 30” list in 2014.

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