After 32 Years of Sacrifice, I Sold My Business for $18 Million and Went Home Early

I called Michael.

He answered warm and easy, the voice of a man with a bottle of wine breathing on the counter, waiting for his wife.

I told him something had come up with the deal. Last-minute financing issues with the buyer, lawyers keeping me downtown, I was going to take a room at the Benson rather than wake him coming in late.

He sounded perfectly continue reading …