After selling Divvy for $2.5 billion, Alex Bean wasn’t happy.

Crazy, right?

Growing up in Redmond, Washington (near Seattle) Alex told me he watched Microsoft grow into a massive company there. He also had an entrepreneurial great-grandfather, and seeing both made him want to start his own business.

After doing a few different jobs and gathering different life experiences, he met up with Blake Murray, a childhood friend, who pitched him the idea of what would ultimately become Divvy, one of Utah’s famous unicorns.

But after having a phenomenal exit, Alex told me he didn’t feel the way he thought he would—instead he felt a little stressed, worn out, and tired. He spent the next few months travelling and relaxing with his family, but eventually became restless. In his words, “I would go to bed thinking I hadn’t earned my sleep.”

Alex’s journey to find meaning after becoming financially free inspired him to write the book Factory For Good, where he breaks down the mindset that helped him find purpose after Divvy.

According to Alex, he believes that all of us are like a factory, and for most of our adult lives we work in that factory to produce money. But for the people who end up finding financial abundance, what do you produce instead?

“He then goes on to talk about how you must “retool” your factory, so that money becomes an input rather than an output, and how your new output must simply become something “good”. And it’s up to each individual person to determine what “good” means for them—whether it’s charity donations, service, mentoring, etc.”