Segal: Post-exit founders should immediately secure an office to maintain routine
David Segal · David Segal: Building a $200m Business · Apr 16, 2024 · at 55:51
David Segal reflects on the abrupt loss of routine and identity after departing DavidsTea following its 2016 liquidity event.
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“First thing I would have done, I would have gotten a nice office. You know, I didn't have that. I stopped and I didn't have any, I had nowhere to go in the mornings, right? I went from having this big office with a hundred plus people who, you know, with my name on the door and I'd walk in and I was important, right? Like, and then I, and then the next day I'm out and you know, I'm waking up and now what? And no one's running up to me anymore, and I'm not in this nice office. And so I think the first thing I would have done, I would have gotten a really nice office. I would have, I would, I think I would have consulted with a lot more people that had been through that experience of having sold their company.”
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