Evan Carmichael argues that solo entrepreneurship caps your growth. To scale, you need a team and a mission bigger than yourself. Working alone feels easier, but building a business that matters requires leadership, mentorship, and people management.
Teams are critical to grow, and not everybody— like, most small businesses are just a solopreneur. But if you want to scale and grow, then you have to be able to work with a team, and you have to like managing people. A lot of people don't like managing people. They like just being by themselves. But if you want to get— you want to get a return out of it and you want to have fun, then you have to— you have to want to mentor and lead and grow and learn to manage a team. For you, you might not love digging ditches, uh, but you got to connect to the mission of like, hey, then this is for somebody, this is for somebody's home, this is— we're making people healthier, we're, we're helping people's lives. Like, you have to connect to why you're doing the work.
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