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137

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Business

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1:31:44

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Selling the company and missing it

With

Owen Park

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Founder, Northfold

About this episode

Owen sold his company for a number he once dreamed about. Then came the quiet. An honest talk about identity after the exit.

What we talk about

Owen describes the morning after the money cleared, when he had nothing on his calendar for the first time in nine years. We talk about earn-outs, losing the team, and the small consulting gig that got him out of bed.

Chapters

00:00 Cold open

06:10 Building Northfold

21:45 The offer

38:20 The first empty Monday

59:00 Who he was without the company

1:20:30 What he's building now

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