by George Sotiropoulos | May 20, 2026 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner, Scaling the Business
Paul and David both started logistics companies around the same time.Both built them to roughly $8 million in revenue with teams of about 30 people.For the first seven or eight years you couldn’t tell them apart.Then Paul did something that David thought was...
by George Sotiropoulos | May 19, 2026 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner
Yesterday I told you about the blind man and the Pharisees and how the experts who were supposed to see most clearly were the ones who couldn’t see at all.Today let’s talk about what that blindness actually costs you when you’re the one running a...
by George Sotiropoulos | May 18, 2026 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner, Scaling the Business
In the Gospel of John there’s a scene that has always stuck with me.Jesus encounters a man who has been blind since birth and heals him. Just like that. A man who had never seen anything in his entire life can suddenly see everything.You’d think that would...
by George Sotiropoulos | May 15, 2026 | Business Value
Yesterday I ran an intimate M&A deep dive breakfast with eight professionals who all touch mergers and acquisitions from different angles and what came out of that room was something none of us expected.I asked one participant, a guy with experience across the...
by George Sotiropoulos | May 13, 2026 | Business Value
Last night I attended a hosted dinner featuring Gaston Hochar, the third-generation family owner of Chateau Musar, one of Lebanon’s most iconic wineries.Twenty-four of us around the table. Between us we probably had over a thousand years of collective wine...
