Chris Koerner owns eight companies and argues most business owners are trapped in their own operations. If your business falls apart when you're gone for six months, you don't own it—it owns you. Real ownership means building something that runs without you.
What's so embarrassing about this video here? Yes, that's me. That was taken just this morning. I cut down a tree with an electric chainsaw. Go ahead, make fun of me. But that's not even the embarrassing part. The embarrassing part is I own a tree trimming company, and I have for over a year, and this is the first tree I've ever cut down. Maybe that's why my fence broke, but here's why that's important. I own eight companies. I shouldn't need to be in the weeds of any of them. If you own a business, and if you were to go away for six months and come back and the business is not even doing better without you, then you don't own the business. The business owns you. You need to be out of the weeds, out of the details of your business. Otherwise, what you have is even worse than a job.
