What's up guys? Welcome back to build. And today we are talking about something that hits

really close to home for a lot of you. If you're a founder, if you're a leader, if you're a CEO,

which is when you are the bottleneck in your own business. The reason I want to talk about the

subject is because it has been really top of mind for me as I have stepped back to reflect on 2024 and been looking at how do I

need to behave, what do I need to do, what do I need to focus on to grow my company in 2025.

And, you know, I have the privilege of having done this before. And so, like, I've been in a

spot where I've been the bottom mic of my own business,

and I've had to get out of that because, you know, the only way that I was even able to sell

my businesses was that I was not intricately needed and involved. And that was, like, a process

that took seven years and a lot of intentional effort and a lot of discomfort. And as I'm looking at Acquisition.com, you know, I'm not looking to sell

Acquisition.com. I have no intention of selling Acquisition.com. Um, you know, would we sell companies in

the portfolio? Sure. But are I going to sell Acquisition.com itself? No, that's not something I plan to do.

Um, this is a business that I said, like, hey, I want to build a business that I like want to own for the rest of my life.

And I'm having a lot of fun doing it.

So for now, that's definitely not something that's top of mind for me.

But that being said, I do think there's a lot of value in thinking about how do I build a business that could be sellable because of the way it's structured, because of the fact it doesn't rely on me.

And something that I've talked about in recent videos

is like, whether you wanna sell your business or not,

structuring it in a way that it doesn't rely on you

is always a good idea.

It is literally never a bad idea.

And I think that sometimes people think,

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