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ProfessionalExiting · 2 years, 8 months
Sold his family's hardware store to its employees
Marcus Bell · 56 · Greensboro, NC
“The highest offer would have closed the doors within a year. That's not an exit.”
In short
Third-generation owner who turned down two buyers and sold the business to the nine people who ran it.
Hardest part
Telling my father, who founded it, that I wasn't keeping it in the family.
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