What It’s Like to Watch Your Business Fail

My wife’s job has always been to keep people relaxed. The stress of keeping that dream alive is agonizing.

Chris Thompson
GEN
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9 min readApr 2, 2020

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TThe widespread crumbling of American small businesses in the year 2020 will ultimately be a second- or third-order concern, at best, as millions of people are infected by the novel coronavirus and some horrifying…

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Chris Thompson
GEN
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Former Deadspinner. Also on Gawker, The Guardian, Road & Track, ESPN’s Truehoop Network, and The Classical.