“starter stories stopped being about me years ago it became about the team about the process about the thousands of founders we interviewed... and if that's actually true then maybe I'm the one holding it back if I really want this thing to grow beyond me then I have to let it go”

When The Company Runs On Team And Process, The Founder Owning It Can Be The Ceiling

Pat reframed the sale by inverting the ego question: once the business genuinely runs on team and process rather than the founder, the founder's continued ownership can be the ceiling, not the engine. Letting go became the pro-growth move, not the abandonment move.