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								{% extends "site_base.html" %}
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								{% load static %}
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								{% block head_title %}{{ flatpage.title }}{% endblock head_title %}
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								{% block body_class %}text-primary{% endblock body_class %}
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								{% block main_class %}container{% endblock main_class %}
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								{% block content %}
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								<div class="row">
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								  <div class="col-12 col-md-8 content text-page">
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								    <h1>Rory Aronson<br />
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								        <small class="subtitle">CEO of FarmBot Inc.</small>
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								    </h1>
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								    <p>
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								        Rory is the CEO of FarmBot Inc, a California benefit corporation that produces 100% open-source CNC farming machines designed 
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								        for small-scale automated precision food production.
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								    <p>
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								        Rory started the project from his sunny porch in San Luis Obispo with the publishing of the FarmBot 
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								        whitepaper in September of 2013. From there, he formed a small team consisting of hardware and software 
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								        engineers who brought the project to market in July of 2016 with the debut of FarmBot Genesis.
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								        After raising over $1,000,000 in pre-order sales in 2016, the team shipped their first units to customers in early 2017. 
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								        Today, over 900 FarmBot kits have been delivered to customers all around the world, and the FarmBot community continues to grow.
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								    <p>
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								        <a href="https://farm.bot">https://farm.bot</a><br />
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								        <a href="https://twitter.com/roryaronson">@roryaronson</a>
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								    </p>
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								    <img src="{% static '/assets/speakers/rory.jpg' %}" style="filter: grayscale(100%);" alt="Rory Aronson" />
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								  </div>
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								{% endblock content %}
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