
Name your successor before the bus does
If you vanished for six months, who runs the company? Most founders can't answer, and the cost is daily, not disaster.
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If you vanished for six months, who runs the company? Most founders can't answer, and the cost is daily, not disaster.

Production revenue ran on a service nobody could fix. The contractor who built it had quit three years earlier and replied to email when he felt like it.

One logo was 42% of revenue. The slide said 'enterprise customers,' plural. The investor asked the number anyway, fifteen minutes in.