Colin SprakeInvestor & Mentor Driving Multi-Million Dollar Growth

Making a Million a Month Didn’t Prepare Me for Losing It.

25 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this candid monologue, Colin Sprake recounts how his company, which was generating about one million dollars in monthly revenue before the COVID‑19 pandemic, abruptly lost all income when government restrictions took effect. He describes the three‑day period of fear and shock, then shifts to the insight that the business’s value was entirely tied to his personal involvement. Recognizing that his founder‑centric model left the company valueless without him, Sprake decided to change his approach. He now focuses on mergers and acquisitions and on building companies designed to operate and scale independently of any single founder, a strategic direction he credits to the pandemic experience, for which he feels grateful in hindsight.

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My business was doing a million dollars a month prior to Covid and in the stroke of the government went to zero overnight. That impacted me massively. I can tell you why the impact for me was so traumatic. For sure it took me three days to think things through and go through all the fear. But then I went into action mode and the one thing that stood out for me the most, far beyond anything else was how I built that business purely on me and that company doing a million a month was now valueless, zero value to it because I was the value. And all of a sudden that disappeared for me. I started to really look at things differently and say, you know what? I need to build businesses independent of me and that's why I got into mergers and acquisitions. That's why I got into building companies now that grow completely independent of me purely because of that situation in Covid that I was super grateful for not at the time but definitely now.