Brian Will

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848 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast · 148: Brian Will: Don't Sell to Private Equity Without This · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

I just said, oh, they're buying me.

They're giving me a million dollars.

This is going to be awesome.

And next thing you know, I'm miserable.

I lasted about a year.

We ended up doing a whole other thing and built this enrollment platform, which went public.

But I was miserable.

And so I learned, make sure that you understand your new role in the company after you get acquired so that you don't get downgraded to junior executive in charge of the bathroom.

Second company I got bought out by, another venture capital-backed company out of Silicon Valley.

This one was going to be exciting.

I had to fly out to Silicon Valley, and we're talking a tier one VC, and go to their boardroom on Sand Hill Road and go to board meetings.

But I remember they bought me out, and I was the Atlanta division of this startup in San

San Jose.

And they wouldn't put me on the website.

They wouldn't even list me as the head of operations.

And I was like, hey, when are you guys going to put me on the website?

They're like, oh, no, we can't put you on the website.

You don't have a college degree.

I'm like, what?

They're like, yeah, we can't do that.

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