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Matt Middendorp

Sep 17, 2026

1:27
Is that correct?
1:28
Employee Stock Ownership Plan.
1:30
Man.
1:30
So, which ironically, I put a poll out on YouTube once.
1:36
And one of the options was everybody should own a piece.
1:39
And that actually got the most votes.
1:40
So Employee Stock Ownership Plan is great.

17 MINS LATER

18:17
But who is it not for? Okay.
6:17
So what is it that business owners most misunderstand about the SOP process before they actually even
6:29
seriously start exploring one? Sure.
6:31
So I think the biggest misunderstanding that every business owner gets as they're thinking about what's next is that ESOP is a sacrifice, right? So here's what I mean by that.
6:45
Every business owner really needs to consider four different buckets as they're trying to decide what's next for their business.
6:52
They need to think about price.
6:54
Right.
6:54
You built it.

6 MINS LATER

12:29
Sure.
20:06
So what's kind of real and what's the noise? Why does it get such a bad rap or why is more people not heard about them?
20:13
Okay.
20:14
So let's talk about, you mentioned a couple of things.
20:17
It's expensive.
20:18
It's complicated.
20:21
It's not just selling your company and doing this, right? Just walking away from it.
20:25
There is an ongoing legacy that you're leaving in an ESOP.

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30:02
How should they be framing that?

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