The Best (and Worst) Businesses to Buy in 2026

You know Codie Sanchez as the woman who made buying a laundromat sound cooler than launching a startup. Today, she's back to talk about her new book, Own or Be Owned, and why so many founders are secretly addicted to their own businesses.

Codie explains why being "the hero" of your company is a trap (she compares it to heroin), the 12 owner archetypes she discovered after surveying 15,000 business owners, and why the goal isn't to work harder, it's to become unnecessary.

She also gets real about the parts of founder life nobody talks about: the years she put her personal life on hold chasing a revenue number, the fear of telling her team she was pregnant, and why she now believes "later" almost never actually comes.

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What we cover

00:00 Are You Ready for Some Money Rehab?

01:33 How to Buy a Laundromat: Cost, Margins, and Failure Rates

14:29 The Thesis Behind Own or Be Owned, and the 12 Owner Archetypes

20:40 Why Being "The Hero" Feels Like Heroin

25:03 Founder Mode vs. Owner Mode

31:03 Stepping Away From the Business She Built