There is something we often see in the companies where we have installed machines over the years: many investors, shortly after setting up the business, hand it over to someone they trust — a partner, an employee, a relative — and move on to a new venture themselves. It sounds reasonable; when there is an opportunity to grow, nobody wants to be tied to a single business. But we have also seen how this story continues, many times: when they come back after a while, things have not gone at all as expected, the person they trusted has spent the money carelessly, and there is not even a clear picture of what the business has earned.
The issue here is usually not that the person had bad intentions. They may well be honest. But the business belongs to the investor, not to the employee — that difference must not be forgotten. Nobody else will be as careful as you are, because you are the one who stands to lose, not them.
Here is what we have observed: nobody runs your business better than you do. But that does not mean you have to be at the plant every day. What you really need is a simple system that lets you regularly track expenses, inputs and production — even from a distance, you need to be able to see how much is being spent on what, and how much is being produced. Leaving the business entirely to someone else without such a system usually ends in disappointment.
In short, trusting people is not wrong. But trusting without following up means leaving your own business to chance.