Taking the fastest-growing hemp company in America into beverages.

Cornbread Hemp started in a living room in 2019 and by August 2024 employed more than fifty people. The 2024 Inc. 5000 ranked it the fastest-growing hemp company in America, the fastest-growing company in Kentucky, among the top ten fastest-growing consumer packaged goods companies, and 122nd fastest-growing company in the United States overall — on the back of roughly 3,000% revenue growth between 2020 and 2023 [1].

The company's differentiation was regulatory and operational rather than promotional: first-to-market USDA organic hemp, full-spectrum formulations containing a legal amount of THC, and third-party lab testing published openly. That is a credible foundation, but it is a foundation built for a supplements shelf. Beverages are a different business, with different buyers, different velocity expectations, and a far greater dependence on cultural presence.

TWA's contribution was to the talent and go-to-market side of the beverage extension. In a category where the product cannot be advertised through most conventional channels, talent and live-event presence carry disproportionate weight — the audience has to encounter the brand in a context where consumption makes sense.

The company's subsequent activity is consistent with that thesis, though it is worth being precise about attribution: Cornbread Hemp went on to announce the first-ever THC beverage sponsorship in college athletics in 2025, and was named the official THC beverage of Rock the Ocean's Tortuga Music Festival in 2026. Neither of those deals is publicly attributed to TWA, and we do not claim them. They are included as context for where the category and the brand have gone.

Cornbread Hemp remains a market leader in hemp-derived THC and CBD, and its beverage line is now a live part of the business rather than a line extension experiment. The founders continue to advocate for federal regulation of cannabinoid products, which is itself a positioning decision — it puts the company on the side of the category maturing rather than the side of the loophole.

The honest summary of TWA's role here is advisory and specific: talent strategy and go-to-market sharpening for the beverage launch, in the CEO's own words. The Inc. 5000 ranking was earned before and independently of that work.