Here’s the disturbing truth: Virtually all successful businesses end up in the maw of finance. Only about one in seven pass their businesses on to family, and of those enterprises, a vanishingly small number make it to third-generation ownership. The businesses become assets, often sold over and over, until the original life is snuffed out. There, investment, profit, trust ownership, regenerative agriculture, and local governance are all working together as a system to create flourishing, ongoing, living wealth. And since she didn’t give away all the wealth of Dansko, she’s modeling a more replicable approach for other founders.