So Cal Entrepreneurs: A Dog Food Horror Story

Don Simkovich, MA

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So Cal Live Work Play

6 min readMar 15, 2019

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The Healthy Spot, founded by Andrew Kim and Mark Boonnark. This story originally ran online in 2015.

Mark Boonnark and Andrew Kim, advocacy for pets through retailing

Andrew Kim couldn’t stand the thought of his dog falling ill during a major pet food recall in the Bay area in 2008 and a business idea struck him that alarmed his parents, hard working Korean immigrants.

Don Simkovich, MA

Written by Don Simkovich, MA

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Don is co-author of the Tom Stone Detective novels on Amazon and writes content for businesses. Visit Don Simkovich Amazon.

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