What's the cost of building a huge company at the expense of your family?

Sometimes the entire family. Kris Kluver, in The Dysfunctional Family Office, tells the story of a tech founder who built a SaaS company from scratch to $180 million in revenue and sold it for just under $400 million. On paper, wildly successful. In reality, her marriage ended six months after the deal closed. Her teenagers had not eaten dinner with her in three years. She was taking Xanax to sleep and Adderall to wake up. After the closing celebration, she sat in her car in the parking garage for forty-five minutes because she couldn't bring herself to drive home to an empty house. The text she sent Kris said it directly. I have everything I worked for. But I have nothing I actually want. The pattern is more common than the founder press releases suggest. The fix is to invest in the rest of the wheel before the exit, not after.