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Chapter 26 - The company vote
Two years later, Bennett Home & Garden received another acquisition offer.
Higher.
Better structured.
Independent valuation supported it.
Employees received retention protections.
Real-estate value was separated transparently.
I was nineteen.
Still in college.
Still not a corporate genius.
I hired an independent advisor.
Asked questions.
Read.
Then voted in favor.
Samuel voted too.
Some relatives were shocked.
Gary had assumed I would automatically block any sale.
Wrong.
I had never been against transactions.
I had been against adults deciding I was incompetent because my vote might inconvenience them.
The deal eventually closed.
My trust received its lawful share.
Gary’s old company got nothing.
May you like
Not revenge.
It simply was not part of the transaction.
