Chapter 24 - THE COMPANY WITHOUT A MATRIARCH
Caldwell Residential grew.
Not because scandal magically improves businesses.
Because professional governance did.
Northstar capital funded:
Affordable senior housing.
Two mixed-income apartment developments.
Employee ownership.
Debt reduction.
The company eventually hired a CEO with no Caldwell surname.
Nobody died.
Family shareholders still existed.
Employees still worked.
Tenants still paid rent.
Buildings needed roofs.
Boring reality.
Cormac never joined the board.
He attended beneficiary education when required.
Then returned to his veterinary clinic.
Stetson never returned to Caldwell leadership either.
He built a good second career.
That mattered.
The family system once told him leaving Caldwell power meant becoming nobody.
He discovered he was still a person.
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Late lesson.
Useful.
