So, You Own a Business?

Build, buy, or run a better business.

Conversations with business owners about the decisions, mistakes, and lessons behind the work. Take what fits and make a smarter next move in your own business.

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For current owners, aspiring owners, and curious minds.

Good business lessons travel across industries.

A business can look completely different from yours and still teach you something useful. I look for those patterns in conversations with owners, then pull out the decisions, habits, and lessons you can carry into your own work.

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The useful part is in the details.

We go past the origin story and get into what changes the day-to-day work: the calls an owner makes, the tradeoffs they live with, and the lessons that stick.

01

How they got in

Started, bought, inherited, or took over.

02

The work

Customers, people, operations, and everyday decisions.

03

What surprised them

The hard parts, expensive mistakes, and tradeoffs.

04

What you can use

A lesson or question for your own next move.

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Your hard-won lessons could help someone else.

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Britton Sprickerhoff

Meet Britton.

I’m an MBA student interested in entrepreneurship, business ownership, and small-business acquisition. I’m building the show I wanted before making my own next move: a place to learn from people who have already made the decisions I’m trying to understand.

Why I started the show