The Open Book Podcast interviews Zando founder and ceo Molly Stern, recorded in June. (Open Road ceo David Steinberger, who hosts the podcasts, joined Zando’s board earlier this year.) Stern credits her formative boss Susan Petersen Kennedy as her “real lifelong mentor.” She says, “I owe everything I understand about book publishing to Susan Peterson Kennedy.” Stern tells Steinberger that she founded Zando in 2020 to create something that didn’t exist: “I would say to anybody who’s thinking about starting a company, start a company because you can see no other way. I felt there was no other way for […]
