Judo Bank tricked me into giving away my business ($10M value) also my home

Dan with a partner started a WordPress support service. Pay a monthly fee and receive as much support as you need. Dan had started multiple startups without much success but this one took off. GoDaddy purchased the company making both partners multi-millionaires.

He wrote a book on what he learned from startups from knowing both failures and success. He took the earnings and bought a small coffee house chain (don't know what happened to that) and the Black Hops brewery where he spent most of his time and capital.

Here he tells the story of how he was forced out of the brewery for dating an employee.

https://dannorris.me/inappropriate-conduct-or-falling-in-lov...

Dan is an excellent writer and I have been following his blog for years. In my heart I know he will bounce back. But there are lessons to be learned in these two blog posts.

Well, it sounds like he thought he was getting a deal of giving away his shares so he could keep his house. And in the end he lost both. But then, it seems like with the personal guarantee and the way the business went that guarantee was going to put him in the line for both anyway. Still a shitty way to go about it, especially if they're sidestepping protections that should prevent it.