Starting up, scaling and moving on: Q&A with cannabis pioneer Tripp Keber
Tripp Keber took many by surprise in December when he stepped down as CEO of Denver-based Dixie Brands, one of the most successful multistate companies in the marijuana industry.
His decision to exit the edibles company seemed to come out of the blue. But, in fact, it was more than a year in the making.
The notion to leave Dixie took root in late 2016, when Keber started reading John Hamm’s Harvard Business Review article, “Why Entrepreneurs Don’t Scale.”
