My Dad Skipped My Wedding for a Golf Tournament. Three Years Later, My Hotel Chain Hit $110 Million. He Texted: “Family Dinner. Important Discussion.” I Showed Up With My Lawyer.

your father has been struggling. The business has had a difficult few years. We thought maybe there was a way for the family to work together.

I understood then that the investment pitch had been constructed around a real financial difficulty, that the number he had proposed was not capital he had sitting in an account but something he was hoping to continue reading …