Longmont Startup Week: Business leaders reflect on keeping their legacy all in the family

LONGMONT — Building a business legacy can take years — sometimes generations — and when a founder steps aside, it can fall to family members of a younger generation to fulfill the promise of that legacy.  

Taking what a father or aunt or grandmother started and building upon it was the topic of discussion during “Longmont’s Legacy Businesses: Keeping it the Family,” one of the first sessions held Tuesday to kick off the 2022 Longmont Startup Week.

For most people, “business is business, and family is family,”  Ward Electric Co. CEO Mark Ward said. But those relationships become more complicated when family…