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I built a family business from scratch to $200 million. Now I’ve become its bottleneck

Fortune4 min read

The hardest thing to accept is that people who didn’t build this company alongside you can see things you don’t.

In 2003, my father, my sister and I founded Kormotech, a Ukrainian family-run company producing cat and dog food; in 2008, I became its CEO. I made decisions quickly, trusted my intuition and didn’t believe in lengthy approval processes. Over 23 years, the company has grown into a business with revenue of $210 million, and we’ve become one of the world’s top 50 pet food manufacturers. When, in 2021, we set ourselves the goal of becoming a global company, I realized that…

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