Stepping back without it falling over

Volume grows faster than the team. Hiring is the obvious answer, and it is the slowest and most expensive one.

A founder wants to leave the company to his family. He cannot, because the business only runs on what is in his head.

Leadership time goes to finding out where things stand. By the time it is known, it is already old.

Two businesses with identical numbers do not fetch identical prices. The difference is how much value walks out with the founder.

Conversion is where acquisitions quietly lose the value that justified them.