This Founder built a successful company. Around $4M in revenue. And much of the business still relied on him. His judgement. His relationships. His decisions. Then he had what he described as "a bit of a stroke." "No real damage." But it forced him to: "reset, realign and figure out what the hell I'm going to do now." One thing became clear. Far less time committed to working. He was going to start walking away from his desk in the afternoons. And suddenly, revenue wasn't the only measure of what he'd built. For years, being needed had looked like success. Customers wanted him. The team relied on him. He was the person who could make the difficult calls. But the stroke forced a different question. What happens when he's not available? He'd built a $4M company. But he'd also built himself deeply into how that company worked. Being indispensable had always felt like an asset. Now it looked like a risk. The question was no longer: "How big can I build this?" It was: "What exactly have I built if it still needs me this much?" Sometimes life shows you something about your business that the numbers can't. If you disappeared from yours for 30 days tomorrow, what would stop?