> But no one wants to work with or hire someone who comes right out and says “I hope we sell the company to some rich jerks (ANY rich jerks, really!) so I can retire to the Bahamas.”

So just lie to them long enough to extract the value you need to sell out, right?

Thank you for the unabashed insight for the reader, but, as a founder: shame on that.

> we all agree to sugar coat this type of thing. We all love money

We don’t all agree. We don’t all “love money”.

We all don’t step on each other. That’s incorrect.

You’re justifying your choices,

which were made in the pursuit of presenting you in a particular way to others,

for your own psyche.