Rudy Mawer

So welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

So tell everyone if they don't know who you are, let's start with, you know, who are you and what do you do and how did you get here?

Well, and it's interesting because, you know, a lot of, you know, I've worked with a lot of attorneys and lawyers and they're very, you know, stay in the paperwork on the legal clauses, right?

And I mean, what you're doing is so great because not only do you understand business much better to help advise on the legal side, but...

Um, you know, actually, uh, I've done a lot around educating entrepreneurs through my programs over the decade on how to build to sell.

And I was fortunate to learn from some friends that had sold $300 million plus companies or done a hundred plus exits.

And they taught me and, uh, you just, you know, you don't learn this stuff, but most people learn it when they sell their first business and lose tons of money.

So when I learned it, I was like, I need to share this stuff.

So it's.

Let's start there.

How did you get into helping entrepreneurs and business owners understand how to structure to sell?

Yeah, it's interesting.

And as I've built many companies, I've exited out of a couple.

But now when I build a company from the ground up, it's like I build it without me involved.

Whereas when I started at the office, it was like you build everything based on you, and then you have to peel away 100 plasters to try and get out of it.

100% right.

And I think that's a great starting point because I can try and teach people.

I'm like, even if you don't plan to sell ever, just doing that makes a healthier business because it's

you're not the bottleneck and you're empowering the team and bringing in the right people.