by George Sotiropoulos | Feb 12, 2026 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner, Scaling the Business
That’s how the conversation started.No excitement. No ambition. Just a man who’d spent years building a technology business and was ready to be done with it.He’d been through a brutal restructuring year. Revenue had dropped. Profitability had gone...
by George Sotiropoulos | Feb 11, 2026 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner, Scaling the Business
This week I’ve been telling you about a friend who turned down an 8-figure offer for his business that happened to be seven times bigger than what was on the table when we first started talking.So what changed?Well he didn’t hire me to run his company,...
by George Sotiropoulos | Feb 10, 2026 | Business Value, Customer Experience
Yesterday I told you about a tiny café in a Greek village. A three-piece band. A warrior dance. A chair thrown across the room.After the music died down and the cheering faded, my friend sat back down, poured himself another glass, and said something I wasn’t...
by George Sotiropoulos | Feb 9, 2026 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner, Scaling the Business
The café was tiny. Packed wall to wall. The kind of place you’d walk past and never notice if you didn’t know it was there.A three-piece band crammed into the corner. A guitarist who sang like he’d been doing it since birth. A bouzouki player keeping...
