Ownership

What selling a business taught me about building one

The way you build a business determines what someone else can see in it.

A question worth asking

A buyer wants to understand what they are buying beyond the founder’s effort: customers, systems, margins, intellectual property and the ability to keep going.

Even if a sale is not the plan, building something transferable creates more choices.

What would change if we asked a better question?

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NOTES FROM STASIA

LESSONS I LEARNED THE EXPENSIVE WAY.

On building valuable businesses, creating wealth, and designing a life worth living.

I started my first business at 16, sold it at 20, and spent the years that followed building, failing, travelling, and learning from people across the world.

Some lessons made me money. Others cost me money, time, relationships, and opportunities. All of them changed how I think.

NOTES FROM STASIA is where I share what I’ve learned and what I’m still figuring out.

START WITH THE FIVE LESSONS I WISH I’D KNOWN BEFORE MY FIRST EXIT.

Five lessons on business, money, ownership, and life that would have saved me years of mistakes.