Phil Risher argues that staying hands-on in a service truck is a safety net, not a business. Acquirers pay for scalable operations, not for you doing the work yourself. Build something bigger or stay stuck.
You could always go back to, like, getting in the truck and selling customers. Like, you could always do that. That's always available, right? You. You will always be able to build that business back up again because you're who you are, and you know, your industry and clients love all that stuff. So you always have that as a backup plan. Exactly. It's just. It's. It's just a backup plan. It's a. It's a consolation prize. It's not, I think, what really makes a business valuable, you know, something that someone would want to buy.
