I sold my company and became an employee

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I did not need to work again. I have been the CTO of a company I did not found for more than four years.

The script is clear. Found, sell, rest. Become an investor, take the stage, found another one. Selling and going back to being an employee is not in the script. It looks like a downgrade.

It is not.

Selling gave me the one thing a founder thinks they already have and do not: real freedom. Not the freedom to give orders. I had that, I was the owner. The other one. The freedom to choose the work for the work, with no cash crunch on my neck, no end of the month deciding for me.

Founder on Thiago Avelino

I sold my company and became an employee