
About this episode
9 months after Jesse Safir bought a printing biz, Covid cratered it. 3 years later, sales are nearing pre-Covid levels.
Topics in Jesse’s interview:
- Finding ABG Printing by sending direct mail
- The value of having a “forgettable” business
- Renegotiating his deal before acquisition
- The changes he made in the first 9 months
- Cutting 80% of his staff during COVID
- Managing cash flow after revenue plunged 95%
- Staffing post-COVID
- How their printing projects have diversified
- The landscape of the printing industry
- Jesse’s vision for a holdco
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