Josh Stanley

Josh Stanley has spent much of his career asking questions before the culture was ready for the answers.

As co-founder of Charlotte’s Web, Stanley helped bring CBD from the fringes of American conversation into the mainstream. The turning point came through Charlotte Figi, a young girl with severe epilepsy whose story became central to CNN’s landmark reporting with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and helped ignite a national conversation around CBD, access, research and policy.

It was a rare experience for any entrepreneur: watching something once dismissed become the center of an entirely new cultural conversation.

Stanley never stopped being interested in what sits just beyond conventional thinking. Over the years, that curiosity expanded beyond a single plant into a much larger question: What does it actually mean for a human being to thrive?

The Vessyl is his next exploration of that question.