My dad uncle spent 27 years building a company from absolutely nothing.

He missed birthdays.
Worked weekends.
Mortgaged everything more than once.
Not only to get rich but to build something his employees could rely on.
When the business was finally worth about $2.7 million, he sold it, believing the new owners would protect everything he had created.
He couldn’t have been more wrong.
Within 20 months…
More than 45 people lost their jobs.
Prices shot up almost 40%.
The retirement plan he’d spent decades funding for loyal workers was wiped out.
People who had given their lives to that company were treated like numbers on a spreadsheet.
He says cashing that check is the biggest mistake he’s ever made.
“I didn’t sell a business,” he told me.
“I handed strangers the keys to people’s livelihoods.”
Some investors don’t buy companies to build a future.
They buy them to strip the value, pocket the profits, and leave everyone else to deal with what’s left.
And it’s happening across industries millions of people depend on every single day.