manifold
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- #21
Supposing that the guy had brought in an actual offer other than a dishonest "what's your price?" Considering the entire situation at that moment I would have possibly said let's talk it over and work out a viable deal. I doubt it but it could have been possible.If you owned something and you had control of something that was worth more than multiple millions and you believed that you could do more good with that which you owned long term if you controlled it would you sell it for mere cash to people who simply wanted to have control? Would you give it up for cash and the comforts that cash can buy?
I was simply asked, "what's your price?" And told "everyone has one, what's yours?".
At the right price, isn't it reasonable to conclude you could actually do more good with the money than the asset itself, assuming that doing good is indeed the priority?
If you know that you can either sell something for x amount or keep it and grow it into a viable job source for others not controlled by a mega corporation has been a choice for many small businesses. I look at and see that the pie will only slice into x amount of pieces. When you sell it all to the corporates who take theirs first and think of everyone else as peons and secondary I think we have a major problem.
A product that cost a dollar to make owned by corporates now has to sell for six to fifteen in order to support all of the management people and the investors. When cost get cut corporates do not cut their pay first. One privately owned company can pay their employees and support their community locally verses spreading it around to ten thousand or more investors and ten managers that do not live in the local area.
In that case you've asked a question that only you can answer.
I'd rarely if ever fault anyone for selling a business they've built.