Here's a question that makes most owners shift in their seat: if you disappeared for a month, would your business be worth more or less when you got back?
John Warrillow built Built to Sell around this idea, and it's true whether or not you ever want to sell: a business that depends on you isn't an asset, it's a job. And a job can't be sold, scaled, or stepped away from. The more the business needs you specifically — your relationships, your decisions, your hands — the less it's actually worth.
The counter-intuitive part is that making yourself less essential makes the business more valuable, not less. Documented systems, a team that owns decisions, customers loyal to the business rather than to you personally — these are the things a buyer (or your own future freedom) pays for.
You don't build that overnight. You build it by steadily handing things off and resisting the urge to be the hero who fixes everything.
That's the territory the Scale course is built for — turning a business that needs you into one that works for you.
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Annie
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