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The Most Expensive Person in Your Business Might Be You

If your business can't run without you, you don't own a business. You own a job.

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Tracy Jepson
Apr 02, 2026
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There is a trap that nearly every founder falls into. Not because they are lazy. Not because they lack ambition. Because they built something that works — and then became the reason it cannot grow.

One person who knows everything.

Every process, every password, every vendor quirk, every workaround. The person everyone calls first, last, and always.

It feels like value. It is actually a ceiling.

This one is for the founders who are tired of being the everything person. Start your 7-day free trial to read the full post — and every issue after it.

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