Chapter 91

     The dream I had the night before showed me word for word exactly what the owner was about to say to me.  The first thing then next morning he invited me into his office.  I sat down in a chair across from his desk.  

     He started to explain how his company was really ShareValue and that I needed to sign over ShareValue to him. He was willing to give me 2% of the company if I would help him with it.  It was astonishing to me to watch him say the exact words that he had said in my dream.  What unbelievable audacity and arrogance!

     The owner had reneged on his commitment to me concerning my shares of stock in the company.

     My policy with my consulting clients was to provide my service as long as I got paid.  If I didn’t get paid, I would no longer be available to them.  This seemed to work for me as I had collected on 95% of all my projects over the years. 

     When the documents for my stock were signed, I gave my thirty-day notice of my resignation.  I only lasted eighteen days though. 

     A couple of months later a friend of mine called me and offered to buy my shares.  I went to inform the owner that I wanted to sell them, but he blocked my sale.    

     He then made me an offer of 10% of the current stock value the company was offering to new investors, and I sold my stocks directly to him. 

     In the end, I got 10% of the stock I understood I would be getting and was paid only 10% of its current value.  An almost eight-million-dollar ($8,000,000) difference in value. 

     I did pray about keeping some of the stock for future growth value, but the Lord informed me that whatever funds I received now that is all I would receive.  So, I sold them all.

     However, I was just glad to get out from under that client-owner and move on with my life.  I did hear that within two years they had gone out of business. 

     The funds from the sale of my shares had I been able to sell them to my friend were enough to start a small bakery.  That was my passion, and I really wanted to do so.  However, I felt a strong pull to start ShareValue but knew it would cost me twenty times as much as I had, and I would be extremely dependent on raising capital and therefore partners.

      My inquiries about putting together a management team went well, and I soon found myself at a point where I needed to decide. I very much wished I had the funds to do the bakery [I did not want partners in the bakery] but decided I should just focus on ShareValue and in May 1999, we incorporated.