[nathan_f77]

> My takeaway from the article is that you don't really ever want to sell a SaaS business if you don't have something more profitable to replace it with.

Not really. There's plenty of reasons to sell an illiquid asset, such as a growing business, or shares in a company. Maybe you want to buy a house, or you want to put it all in the S&P 500 to be completely passive and have much lower risk. Maybe you just want to swap your company for a yacht and sail around the caribbean for a while.

[charlesdm]

Most people underestimate how valuable having half a million or so in the stock market can be. That's true passive income, unlike any business.

[icedchai]

Except when the market's dropping everyday, like in '08 or earlier this year. It takes balls of steel to hold on and keep investing.