A company is not simply an arrangement of capital and people. It is a longer thing. It carries its Founder's habits, his judgment, his refusals, his courage; it carries them past the years he is in the building.
This is what I mean when I say a company is a means to being a legacy, not an end in itself.
His company is employment for his son, a down payment for his daughter's home, an internship for a nephew, tuition for a grandchild. These are not soft things. They are the actual outputs of a Founder's care.
And so the company, properly understood, is the lengthened shadow of its Founder. It is him writ large.
It will still be that long after he has gone.
His Vision. His legacy.