The “proof” is that you can go away for 2 weeks and your senior team handles everything. No crises, no frantic phone calls and no switching on your laptop.
But what if you went away for 2 months? Or 6 months?
While most established businesses can survive a short while without their owners, they remain “founder-led”.
The owners are still the ultimate safety net – the final decision makers, the face that clients trust, the problem solver when things go wrong.
But you won’t achieve a premium valuation if your business is too dependent on its current shareholders – and this will be noticed by serious investors and acquirers alike.
The answer is to start making your business “process-led” rather than founder-led.
That means building strong processes and a confident team that can handle big decisions, serve all of your clients and drive growth using proven systems – not ad hoc help from the founder.
This doesn’t happen overnight and you need robust frameworks. But little by little, you will shift the centre of gravity away from the owner, towards a process-led business, with a much higher valuation.
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