Am I just being idealistic or is this an tremendous opportunity? What is better for owner than his employees to want to take on challenges, by themselves even,

Am I just being idealistic or is this an tremendous opportunity? What is better for owner than his employees to want to take on challenges, by themselves even, assuming they have the chops to pull it off? Employees showing ambition seems like just as good a reason to expand as demand picking up, again assuming that the market is there. I reckon that the founder/manager/owner is not the only one that deserves a career path (he went from running a one man band to actually managing people). And someone coming to you and saying - I want to do your work has to be the most awesome thing an entrepreneur could get to hear. You have a willing replacement so you can move to something even cooler - now that is some sweet burden. What seems like a more interesting question to me is how can I get people to want to take my job consistently?