Family Mocked My 'Small Investment' At Meeting - I Control 78% Of Their Company

Family Mocked My 'Small Investment' At Meeting - I Control 78% Of Their Company The conference room at Sterling Manufacturing headquarters smelled like expensive coffee and older money. Twenty-three family members sat around the massive oak table, all shareholders in the company my grandfather had built fifty years ago. All of them dressed in business attire that cost more than most people's monthly rent. All of them looking at me like I was a child who'd wandered into the wrong room.I was used to it."Let's begin," Uncle Charles announced, tapping his pen against his leather portfolio. As the current CEO and my grandfather's eldest son, he ran these quarterly shareholder meetings with the enthusiasm of a man attending his own funeral. "Q3 results are strong. Revenue up twelve percent, margins holding steady at eighteen percent."