About this episode
Smithlist is a job board for leadership roles at small businesses. If you're not ready to buy a business but want to lead one:
Anica John bought a print-on-demand business to have more time with her kids without compromising her career ambitions.
Topics in Anica’s interview:
- Experience at Amazon, WalMart, and Disney Streaming
- Choosing entrepreneurship over returning to office
- Buying a publishing company for indie authors
- High capex = moat
- Diversity of their genres and clientele
- Resurrecting a dead deal
- How DiggyPOD stacks up to Amazon KDP
- Carefully planning tech upgrades
- Award-winning customer service
- Running a business from out of state
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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron
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