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The doorman fallacy is the mistake of reducing a role to its most visible task and then optimizing away the hidden value around it. In business, especially in private equity and founder-led companies, this often shows up as smart-looking cost cutting that quietly damages trust, culture, customer experience, and long-term performance.
For years, I believed scale was the goal. More revenue, more customers, more everything. Today, I see it differently. Not anti-growth but far more selective about when scale actually makes sense.
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Should you buy an existing business? Or build your own? Not an easy choice…here’s what I think.
After selling my company, I explored buying another business and quickly realized that inheriting someone else’s unfinished systems wasn’t the future I wanted.
Going through the due diligence period for about 12 companies and this has not been working out ok.