Skip the startup grind. Buy or start a modest local business like a State Farm branch, keep it forever, and pull a few hundred thousand dollars a year. You get freedom and stability without investors pushing you to sell or scale.
A lot of people think like buy a business, the way you make money is to grow it and like sell it. That doesn't have to be the case. Like buy or start a business that's profitable and then keep it forever. If you go into like any nice neighborhood, most people own a business that does pretty well. I know a guy that runs the local State Farm branch that does pretty well, right? He started it. He has like a little location, you know, he's making a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. Like that's pretty good. I think we realize like those are the types of businesses that we like and we don't want other people calling, hey, when are you going to sell? Hey, when are you going to do this? Like, you know, the pressures of— It's just so much bullshit, like, dealing with people, and you just don't want to be beholden to anyone.
