I Emptied My Savings to Build It. Then I Had to Learn to Leave It.

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Build for Freedom. Not to Be Indispensable.

I started Solpak at 31.

I had saved a good amount of money. I thought it was enough. It was not. Growth outpaced capital. I ended up emptying every registered savings account I had to keep funding it.

That is a decision you make once and never forget.

What took me close to a decade to fully grasp, and another decade to actually execute, was simpler than I expected: the goal is not to build a company that needs you.

I got there. Solpak grew more than 35 percent annually for fifteen years. Today I can take a vacation without the phone ringing.

I wrote Built for Freedom while Solpak was growing 23 percent that same year. Not in spite of writing it. Because the business no longer needed me present to function.

El Cronista ran the full interview yesterday in their Transport y Cargo section.