Company Spotlight: Randy’s Club
Randy’s Club is a family company ran by Linda Strause and her two sons, Tyler and Brendon. The company currently offers hemp-based products powered by Cannaka, a unique blend of naturally occurring cannabinoids found in hemp developed by formulation experts. We caught up with Randy’s Club earlier this week for our company spotlight.
1. What is Randy’s Club’s mission and what keeps you focused?
Our mission is to transform botanical extracts containing naturally occurring cannabinoids and terpenes derived from hemp into effective health products. By utilizing the entourage effect, our products will enable consumers to operate at their most optimal level, all while promoting a healthy lifestyle.
Randy’s Club was founded and is run by the Strause family, Linda Strause, Ph.D. (Mother), Tyler Strause (Son), Brendon Strause (Son).
“We made a product that we wished we had when Randy, a father, and husband in this family, was dying from glioblastoma, an incurable brain cancer. What really pushes us forward isn’t just the intrinsic need for our products, it’s the feedback we hear from our customers. We know these products can transform a person’s quality of life and, therefore, we want to get them in the hands of as many people as possible”.
— Linda Strause, Co-Founder
2. What gives you a competitive edge in your industry?
First and foremost, we are a compliance company that focuses on regulations, research, and education. Randy’s Remedy is our product solution for this space, but expertise in compliance and regulations allow us to help anyone with formulations and IP protection.
The Strause Group includes:
- Linda Strause, PhD, Vice President — Executive in the drug development industry and Adjunct Professor of Nutrition at UC San Diego.
- Tyler Strause, President — Cannabis and hemp subject matter expert, member of the California County and City Watch Political Action Committee, and responsible for Product Development.
- Brendon Strause, Managing Director — Responsible for all operations, sales, and finances.
3. How is Randy ’s Remedy making the world a better place?
The impact that we and the rest of the greater cannabinoid product markets can have is immense. For most people, cannabis-derived ingredients left the American food web in the 30’s but are beginning to make a come back. We are uniquely focused on producing botanical hemp products (topicals, extracts, isolates, oral supplements, foods) vs. traditional hemp products (hemp seed oil and hemp protein powder).
4. How did you end up partnering with the cannabis holding company Orthogonal Collective?
As with all start-up companies, adequate funding is always a concern. As a family company, we were looking for a partner that respected our passion and understood our challenges. Orthogonal Collective is a socially conscious holding company that we immediately felt a part of. David Nikzad’s — Orthogonal’s founder — belief in the team, as well as the company, was consistent with our mission. We also saw and have enjoyed the synergies that come from partnering with like-minded companies.
Our first interaction with David was in 2012, and actually ended with ‘thanks, but no thanks.’ And in hindsight, this was probably best for both of us. Orthogonal was at the beginning of its creation, and we were finding our way while the market was nascent. Today both GR&S and Orthogonal are in very different places and ready to work synergistically. We have gotten clearer on our core competency and regulations, now that the industry allows us to see how that expertise will fit into the industry. At the same time, Orthogonal has established its core portfolio, and we can see how, as a member of the portfolio, we can grow. We knew we couldn’t do this alone, but we did not realize that Orthogonal Collective and not David alone, was what we were looking for.
5. What does the future hold?
We see our future in 3 parts:
- Establishing ourselves as the experts in compliance and regulation in the regulated cannabis markets. That includes hemp, medical marijuana, and adult-use marijuana within state and FDA approved markets.
- Growing our enterprise product division so that we can partner with other like-minded companies to infuse Cannaka, our IP hemp formulation into other products such as Burt’s Bees.
- Increasing online and retails sales for Randy’s Club products, and growing our product line.

