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The Best (and Worst) Businesses to Buy in 2026

B1IntermediateAugust 31, 202656 min

You know Codie Sanchez as the woman who made buying a laundromat sound cooler than launching a startup. Today, she's back to talk about her new book, Own or Be Owned, and why so many founders are secretly addicted to their own businesses. Codie explains why being "the hero" of your company is a trap (she compares it to heroin), the 12 owner archetypes she discovered after surveying 15,000 business owners, and why the goal isn't to work harder, it's to become unnecessary. She also gets real about the parts of founder life nobody talks about: the...

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Do you know how many bitcoins have been lost? And I don't just mean that someone used them to buy a pizza as a stunt back in the day. I mean that the coins are in wallets that users can't remember the code for, or they threw away the hard drive, or are stored on a drive that is so damaged it can't be turned on.

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It's estimated that at least 3 million bitcoins are lost forever. 3 million bitcoin is currently valued at over $236 billion. That's a lot of lost money. But the true number is probably higher. If Bitcoin is part of your long-term strategy,

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