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Rob Walling

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Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

But obviously it's, you know, it can be pricey.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Every founder I know dreams about what an exit might look like.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

But if you're doing between $2 and $25 million in ARR, you've probably realized you're in this weird middle zone.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Too big for the online marketplaces, too small for an investment bank to care.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

That's exactly why my good friend Einar Volset started Discretion Capital.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Einar is my co-founder at TinySeed, and he's helped companies you've heard on this podcast have life-changing exits.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

If you listen to the Scraping Bee or Gym Desk episodes, you heard those founders talk about what Discretion did for them.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Those were massive outcomes.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

His team has helped Segments.ai exit to Uber and Sparkloop to ConvertKit.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Whether you're just trying to understand what your company might be worth, you've got an offer on the table and you're not sure if it's any good, or you want to run a full process and get maximum value, head to DiscretionCapital.com and have a conversation with Einar's team.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Another question though is do you need owners and project level?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Need is I think a difficult thing for me to define but I would say that my life has gotten so much easier as an entrepreneur since we have hired more mid-level and senior folks who can take these big tasks off my plate and it frees me up then to think longer term and to think about new initiatives and initiatives

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

To stay in my zone of genius, which is not day-to-day operations of a company.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Of course, I can operate one.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

I've done it many times.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

Tiny C is my sixth company.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

And I can operate.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

It's just not my favorite thing.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

And day-to-day operations and management and being in the weeds is perhaps not the best use of my time if I can find someone who can do it as good as or better than me.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 826 | How to Find, Hire, and Work with Owner-Level Thinkers

And that's the thing.