Founder Problem

The Founder Paradox

The more successful the company becomes, the more concentrated a founder's personal wealth can become.

A large percentage of personal net worth may depend on one private company.

Company risk, market risk, financing risk and personal financial risk can compound.

Paper wealth and usable liquidity are not the same thing.

A liquidity event can create significant tax consequences at precisely the moment wealth becomes liquid.

Personal financial decisions can become dependent on a company's financing, valuation and exit timeline.

The objective isn’t to predict the exit.
It’s to build a personal financial architecture that does not require the exit to happen on schedule.