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When your child rejects the family business you built for them

I built this company from nothing twenty-three years ago and my son wants no part of it and I cannot figure out if I should sell or keep fighting to make him care.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The founder's vision of legacy through bloodline collides with their child's need for autonomy and separate identity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Business legacy — the company that outlasts the founder?”

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