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Suggest questionThis week, Gene Marks talks about three very different topics. First, he explains how helping employees find affordable health care can actually generate business growth, and he walks through the ways even very small businesses can help. Next, Gene weighs in on proposed legislation in California that is designed to keep AI models from causing catastrophic harm. And finally, he explains how a new hire just out of college helped a Chevy dealer create a sitcom parody that went viral. But did it sell cars?
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The proponents of employee stock ownership plans can make them sound like the greatest thing ever. A business owner can take a big chunk of money off the table—or even all of it—while still getting to run the business. And there are some pretty great tax breaks. Oh, and it will also solve income inequality in America. On the other hand, if ESOPs are so smart, why are there so few of them?
Jim Kalb of Triad Components Group in San Diego and Jeff Taylor of Crafts Technology in Chicago have both implemented ESOPs. Jay Goltz of the Goltz Group in Chicago has reached his 60s without a succession plan, and he’s considering his options. In this 21 Hats Conversation, you get to listen in on a street-smart discussion of the pluses and minuses of ESOPs from the business owner’s point of view.