Towards the end of last year, Lance Uggla was on the verge of striking the biggest deal of his career. But before selling the company he had built from scratch over almost two decades, the peppy Canadian entrepreneur had to make a phone call to one of his most trusted confidants — his father.
“When I first called my father, he said, ‘Why would you ever do that?’” Uggla says of the moment he revealed his intention to sell IHS Markit to data giant S&P Global.