What selling the first company taught me, and what it did not
He sold at 41, took eighteen months off, and is now three years into running a 60-person manufacturer. A postmortem on the exit itself: what the money changed, what it did not, and the single habit from the first company that nearly broke the second.
- 11 years running the first company
- 94 headcount at sale
- 14 months from first approach to close