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A generation of talent is turning its attention to small business.
I see it every week.
As host of the podcast Acquiring Minds, I interview people who buy a small business as their path to entrepreneurship.
These entrepreneurs are not only pursuing the financial opportunity in small business, they're drawn by what small business actually is:
The ability to impact the lives of employees.
To feel connected to outcomes.
To live outside the guardrails of corporate life and get their hands dirty.
Not everyone drawn to small business will actually acquire a business themselves.
Maybe they don't have the desire (or runway) to spend months & years searching for a business, or putting together a deal.
Maybe the personal guarantee is too much downside.
Maybe the timing isn't right.
And yet, the draw is there.
The draw to be a leader at a small business.
The entrepreneurs who have bought a business are desperate for good operators.
They are looking for leaders like themselves with an appetite for the scrappy world of small business.
Leaders whose talents and skills aren't widely available in that world.
Whose instincts are entrepreneurial, even if they don't choose to be owners themselves.
These leaders are operators, general managers, VPs, chiefs of staff, even presidents & CEOs — but the kind who prefer Main Street over Wall Street.
They exist in their numbers, but finding them is difficult.
Smithlist brings these two groups together.
The next generation of business owners on one side.
On the other, the leaders and operators who want to pour their talents into a small business.
The opportunities you'll see on Smithlist are leadership-level roles at small businesses, often working directly for an owner-entrepreneur who bought their business.
These are curated roles.
They come from the community of searchers, owners, deal sponsors, and PE shops.
And they've been hard to find in one place.
Smithlist aims to fix that.
And by doing so, to help build out the leadership of the next generation's great small businesses.
