Fargo INC! Features Flatland Capital Group: 10 Questions with Jack Brodshaug
Fargo INC! magazine sat down with co-founder and COO Jack Brodshaug for its 10 Questions series, covering why Flatland Capital Group exists, who it serves, and what it means to build an ag finance startup back home in Fargo.
Fargo INC! magazine has featured Flatland Capital Group in its People section. John Machacek, Chief Innovation Officer for the Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation, put his signature 10 questions to our co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Jack Brodshaug, for the magazine's long-running startup interview series.
Read the full interview at fargoinc.com.
What the interview covers
The conversation runs from the elevator pitch to the time machine question. Jack walks through who Flatland serves and why the company exists, how a career spent inside Nutrien, Syngenta, and Monsanto translates to a small team with no corporate safety net, and what he would tell a younger version of himself. As he puts it in the interview, "Financing on its own is a commodity and doesn't move product."
That conviction shapes everything we build. A creative program built around financing shifts buying behavior, which is why Flatland works on two fronts for ag retailers: cash flow and sales lift. Jack explains how our factoring approach frees up retailer cash 60 to 180 days sooner, how input financing can be white-labeled under the retailer's own brand, and how a well-run program can drive a double-digit lift in sales.
The team and the community
The interview also introduces the three co-founders and the deliberate way their backgrounds fit together: Jack on the ag retail, manufacturing, and farming side, Greg on go-to-market strategy and technology implementation, and Chris on capital markets and financial structuring.
Jack talks about the role community and regional lenders play in our programs, including a successful pilot that brought one lender in alongside five ag retailers, and why Flatland aims to drive more financing activity back to those institutions rather than compete with their operating loans. He also shares what it has been like to move back to the Fargo-Moorhead area after 15 years away, including Flatland's partnership with Grand Farm, and ends with a simple ask: if you know ag retailers or manufacturers looking to move more product or free up cash flow, or you are at a financial institution interested in participating as a lender, we would love an introduction.
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The complete interview, including all ten questions, is available at fargoinc.com. To learn more about what we are building, visit our About page or contact us.