[1] With Griepp as CEO, the new business absorbed some of Big Rapids' assets[3][4] and grew to be the largest comic book distributor in the United States.
[7] When trade magazine Hero Illustrated published a list of the 100 most important people in the comic industry in mid-1993, Griepp was ranked tenth because of his push for innovation in distribution technology.
[3][10][11] After next working as a publishing and retailing consultant, in 1999–2000 Griepp ran Next Planet Over, a San Francisco-based e-commerce company.
[3] In 2001, he founded ICv2 (Internal Correspondence version 2), an online trade magazine which also conducts annual industry conferences.
[3][13][14] These roles led to him being ranked number 92 on Bleeding Cool Magazine's 2012 "Top 100 Power List" for the comic industry.