Bluebacks: How to Vet, Buy, and Run a Profitable Blue-Collar Small Business (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798996482900)

We were supposed to get robot housekeepers, lawnmowers, and chauffeurs. Instead, we automated away creative work and white-collar careers that were supposed to be forever safe. Now that artificial intelligence (AI) is replacing high-paying, high-tech careers, what are we supposed to do with our credentials and work experience?

Tripp Parker found himself in this exact situation. After graduating from Duke University, he turned a programmer's salary into a small fortune in bleeding-edge fields like machine learning and healthtech wearables. But when he began training first overseas human replacements for dimes on the dollar and then watching as the very same AI he worked with began to do his and his colleagues' jobs for him, Tripp had to get out.

There's a new boom in business, and Tripp like many in his generation have found it-Baby Boomer business owners are retiring by the thousands and selling, closing, or otherwise handing over small businesses in the blue-collar and gray-collar trades, valued collectively in the trillions of dollars. Bluebacks teaches ambitious, intelligent professionals how to transition out of high-risk work and into small business entrepreneurship-by buying an undervalued business, then growing it beyond the previous owner's wildest dreams.