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Exited Founder Podcast | Andrew Lassise: How He Turned a Failed Exit into a Life-Changing Acquisition
Andrew Lassise tried to sell his IT company in 2019, and got rejected. Revenue was down, there were no contracts, no recurring revenue, no clean story. So he rebuilt. ...
Exited Founder Podcast | Dan Bauer: 20 Years, 100 Consultants, and a Sale to the Client Who Came Back to Buy It All
Dan Bauer spent 20 years building The MBA Exchange into a global firm with 100 consultants across 11 countries, then walked away from the traditional M&A process when ...
Exited Founder Podcast | Tommaso Trionfi: How He Sold 5 Companies Across SaaS, EdTech, and eCommerce
Tommaso Trionfi has sold five companies across SaaS, EdTech, and ecommerce, including Wimba to Blackboard and Merchantry to Tradeshift in an all-stock deal that landed...
Exited Founder Podcast | Dan Cornell: What 25 Years and Multiple Exits Taught Him About Selling a Cybersecurity Company
In 1999, Dan Cornell sold his first company in an all-stock deal and watched the shares ride from 8 15/16 to nearly $94 — and then, contractually barred from selling o...
Exited Founder Podcast | Vik Tantry: How He Bootstrapped FormSwift to $95M and Sold to Dropbox
Sathvik "Vik" Tantry and his co-founder built FormSwift from a freelance frustration into a 10-million-document platform without raising a single venture dollar. Ten y...
Exited Founder Podcast | Colin Hodge: How He Sold His Viral Dating App, Bought It Back in a Fire Sale, and 10X'd It
Colin Hodge built a dating app so viral it hit one million users in three and a half months — then got sued, kicked off the App Store, acquired by a company in Asia, a...
Exited Founder Podcast | Andrew Kirpalani: From Bar Napkin to Acquisition — Exiting WorkHound
Andrew Kirpalani co-founded WorkHound in 2015 after being pitched the idea over a beer in exchange for putting his name on an accelerator application. What he agreed t...
Exited Founder Podcast | Rachel Murphy: Selling to a Competitor and Building a Founder Exit Playbook
Rachel Murphy has been an entrepreneur since she was 12 years old, when she hired her mates to wash cars and kept a cut for herself. That early instinct for building t...
Exited Founder Podcast | Shannon Wilburn: Selling the Franchise Empire She Built From Her Living Room
Shannon Wilburn started Just Between Friends in her living room, a marketplace for families to buy and sell gently used children's clothes, toys, and baby gear. Over 2...
Exited Founder Podcast | Sean McKenna: How He Sold His HR Tech Startup to Dayforce in 16 Months
Sean McKenna launched DataFuZion HCM in the middle of a pandemic with a new baby at home, and just nine months later, Ceridian (now Dayforce) called with an offer to b...
Introducing The Exited Founder Podcast
Welcome to The Exited Founder Podcast, a production of Exitwise!This show is built on one simple idea: founders helping founders. Every episode features a successful E...
The Wise Exit | Remote Workforces When Selling Your Business | Nathan Hirsch
Summary:Nathan Hirsch, a serial entrepreneur, shares his journey of building and selling his company, FreeUp, which utilized remote workforces. He discusses the import...
The Wise Exit | Your Why in M&A | Meighan Newhouse
Summary:In this episode, Todd Sullivan interviews Meighan Newhouse, the co-founder and former CEO of Inspirant Group, a management consulting firm that was acquired by...
The Wise Exit | Growth Drivers That Deliver M&A Success | George Sandmann
George Sandmann shares his thoughts on: Creating business engines that deliver predictable profits, cash flow, and sustainable growthDriving predictable, transferable ...
The Wise Exit | Top 3 Attributes Of Any Sellable Business | Mike Finger
Mike Finger highlights the three elements all small business owners should focus on when building a company for a future M&A exit:Are your business results desirable? ...
The Wise Exit | Selling a Business From Prison | Chris Wise
EPISODE 64: THIS WEEK'S GUEST - CHRIS WISEIn this episode, Chris talks about:Asking for help when building your company for the futureCoaching founders on how to remov...
The Wise Exit | Building (And Selling) eCommerce Brands | Robb Green
EPISODE 63: THIS WEEK'S GUEST - ROBB GREENIn this episode, Robb talks about:His evaluation criteria for starting eCommerce brandsHow he decides when it's time to sell ...
The Wise Exit | Buying SPORT Magazine| Wayne Parrish
EPISODE 62: THIS WEEK'S GUEST - WAYNE PARRISHIn this episode, Wayne talks about:His early beginnings as a student journalist at the University of British ColumbiaBecom...
The Wise Exit | Build A Proper Succession Plan For Exit | Christine Nicholson
EPISODE 61: THIS WEEK'S GUEST - CHRISTINE NICHOLSONIn this episode, Christine talks about:The three things that every founder needs to focus on when building their bus...
The Wise Exit | To Sell Or Not To Sell | Edin Basic
EPISODE 60: THIS WEEK'S GUEST - EDIN BASICIn this episode, Exitwise Co-Founder & CEO Todd Sullivan speaks to Edin about:The importance of understanding market trends t...
