You built something real. Now you're dealing with a different problem: what to do with the money.
I'm Taras. I spent four years assembling a $1bn infrastructure project, lost it overnight when Crimea was annexed in 2014, and rebuilt from several floors below zero. These days I'm a partner in a UK wealth management group, which means I sit on the other side of the table founders walk up to after an exit. This site is everything I'd want a founder to know before that meeting: how wealth management really works, in plain English, for people with $5M–$100M in assets. It's education and opinion, never advice — frameworks so you can make better calls on your own or with the advisers you choose.
The full backstory is in my origin story. Otherwise, start where it matters most for your situation.
Where are you right now?
Just had an exit (0–24 months after the money landed)
You're flooded with inbound: advisers pitching, friends with "opportunities", and your own restless energy looking for the next thing. In my experience the expensive mistakes happen in this window, and they mostly happen through speed.
Start with The First 90 Days After Exit — what to do, what to defer, and why cash earning 4% while you think is a bargain. Then work through Running a Family Office Under $100M, the flagship playbook: 16 chapters on running your wealth with family-office discipline, without the family office. And if the harder problem right now is in your head rather than your accounts, Founder Identity Crisis After Exit covers the part nobody warns you about.
Planning an exit (12–36 months out)
What you do before the money arrives shapes everything after it, and some options simply expire at completion. Start with Pre-Exit Wealth Planning, then read Tax Frameworks for Global Founders for how to think about tax across borders without the usual sales pitch for a specific setup.
Still building, or buying
If you're in growth mode, the wealth preservation content can wait — capital is built before it's managed. Two playbooks cover the building side: the Entrepreneur's Acquisition Playbook on buying existing businesses instead of starting from scratch, and the Founder's Guide to AI-Enabled Roll-Ups, ten chapters on the deals reshaping services businesses right now, whether you're selling into one, building one, or backing one.
Deploying capital
If the question is "the money's here, how do I invest it", start with Investment Philosophy for Uncertain Markets, which is where my own thinking lives. Then 60/40 Portfolio Is Dead on how wealthy investors allocate instead, and the Private Credit for Founders playbook on the asset class your wealth manager will almost certainly propose first.
Cleaning up what you already have
Accounts everywhere, advisers who have never spoken to each other, structures from years ago that nobody remembers the reason for. Auditing Your Wealth Setup walks through finding the drift, and Common Mistakes is worth reading before you change anything.
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How the content works
Three formats. Playbooks are the big evergreen guides — read in order, revisited as your situation changes, updated when the facts change. Articles go deep on a single topic. Capital Signals track what's shifting right now and link back to the playbooks when deeper context exists.
Everything sits under four themes: Build Mode (creating capital), Life OS (the thinking behind the decisions), Wealth Architect (structuring and protecting it), and Investment Office (putting it to work). Full descriptions are on the About page.
What this isn't
This is education and personal opinion, not financial advice. I'm sharing how I think about these problems, not what to do with your money — I can be wrong, and things change. You still need qualified professionals for the specifics. The point of this site is that you walk into those meetings already knowing how things work: asking better questions, spotting conflicts, and able to judge the advice you're getting.
Questions or disagreements: get in touch. I read everything.