The Journey To Finish Big with Bo Burlingham (Ep. 4)

The Journey To Finish Big with Bo Burlingham (Ep. 4)

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The journey towards a successful exit plan is long, with many roads to navigate. Learning from several experiences of others can grant us a push in the right direction.

In this episode, Mark Dorman interviews Bo Burlingham, contributing writer for Forbes and the renowned author of Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies On Top, on his journey from starting his career as a freelance journalist with limited financial knowledge to a profound author who has interviewed thousands of business owners on their exit strategies. 

Bo discusses: 

  • His career timeline and how he became a writer and journalist
  • What the term Small Giant means for businesses
  • The success story of Zingerman’s Deli and how the idea of Small Giants started
  • The goal behind transforming his journalistic writings into books
  • How the book Finish Big came to be and what it means for business owners
  • And more

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About our Guest: 

Bo Burlingham is an editor-at-large of Inc. magazine and the author of five books, the most recent being Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top (Portfolio/Penguin, 2014). A previous book, Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead of Big (Portfolio/Penguin, 2006), was one of five finalists for the 2006 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award. 

A former Fulbright Scholar and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Burlingham graduated from Princeton University in 1967 with a B.A. in public and international affairs. Bo and his wife, Lisa, have been married for 44 years and live in Oakland, California, and Sancerre, France. They have two children and four grandchildren.

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