When your wildly successful business grows beyond your ability to service, you hire your first employee. You don't trash it all to go pour coffee. This whole story sounds a little bullshitty to me. What more likely happened is that a marginally successful business was wildly mismanaged both in time and resources and burned out its sole operator. Without the funds to take the next step in business growth or dial it back a bit, drastic choices were made to maintain some amount of income. If her coffee pouring wage is anywhere close to her entrepreneur wage, that business was swirling the bowl anyway.