"Pivot at the peak, not after the fall Two days after his faith film Heaven Is for Real opened to nearly $30 million — doubling its budget — Franklin's studio chairman called to praise him and offer a promotion. Instead of accepting, he walked into her office and quit, demanding a production deal to start his own company. "Every pivot has a time clock on it," he explains, and had he "equivocated, the window of opportunity would have closed" — the chairman herself was gone within weeks due to the Sony hack. The lesson inverts conventional wisdom: the strongest moment to make a bold career move is when you have maximum leverage, not when you are desperate. Source: Devon Franklin, Undefined (RC & Friends style interview podcast), Devon Franklin Episode"