Episode 49: Glen Jacobson; Building a Business on the Water - The Mistakes, Risks, and Persistence
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A single wrong boat can sink your plan before it starts, and a single good partnership can save it. I sit down with Glen Jacobson, one of the founders behind what many locals know today as Alaska Fjordlines, to trace how a kid from Kansas went from selling crawdads for bait to running hundreds of thousands of miles on Lynn Canal and building a ferry and tour boat business between Haines, Skagway, and Juneau.
We talk through the unglamorous parts of small business in Alaska: buying a boat that is too slow, scraping through seasons that lose money, and learning why “no…
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