Why is giving the company to my kids harder than building it ever was?

Building a company asks for grit, vision, and a willingness to grind through years of uncertainty. You can do it alone or with a small team. Handing it to the next generation requires something most founders never trained for. Reading where each kid actually is, what they actually want, and how they will work together when you're not the gravitational center anymore. The skills are completely different. Kris Kluver writes about Robert Mitchell, a founder who built a company from nothing and then sat frozen in his own boardroom asking how it could be this hard to give it all away. The answer is that the giving touches everything the building avoided.