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Gaming the System: Suli Ali's Journey from Microsoft to Mobile Game Empire

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Suleman “Suli” Ali was introduced to the world of business M&A when he was just eight years old helping his father find and...

Charlie Silver's Path from Jiffy Lube to Data Privacy Pioneer

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: After a short stint in politics, Charlie Silver, founder and CEO of Permission.io, shares his 35-year entrepreneurial journey, ...

ER & Entrepreneurship: John Shufeldt's MeMD Walmart Deal

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: John Shufeldt was an ER doctor before embarking on a decades-long career as a serial healthcare entrepreneur with three compani...

From Bootstrapped Beginnings to Strategic Exit to Brandwatch: The Story of Paladin with James Creech

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Before the days of YouTube and TikTok, James Creech was creating videos, little did he know this interest would lead him to one...

Beyond the Screen: Sara Hirsh Bordo’s Path to Purpose

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Among everything Sara Hirsh Bordo has done in her career, from being a marketing executive at Paramount Pictures and MGM Studio...

Dot Com Dreams to Exit Realities with Matt Frary

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Matt Frary got his start in online business during the dot com era. After graduating from business school and being unable to f...

From Food-tech Nonprofit to Zomato Acquisition with Srishti Kawatra

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Srishti Kawatra describes her journey from founding her food distribution nonprofit while working at her corporate job in India...

The Journey Beyond the Sale: Lessons from John Rood's Exit

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: John Rood, author of "Beyond the Exit", shares his journey of exiting his test prep business, Next Step Test Preparation, and t...

Selling Success: How Lark Took Flight with Pallavi Golla

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Pallavi Golla, serial entrepreneur and mother of two young boys, walks us through her journey of building and selling her bambo...

The Moving Parts of a $100M Exit with Ben Faw

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Ben Faw has gone through two exits, one of which closed for a $100M valuation. In this conversation, Ben discusses how he sele...

Build to Exit with David Perez

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: “If you can’t make a sale, you have no business…but with sales comes rejection.” David Perez is a seasoned entrepreneu...

Soldier to Seller: Jon Caldwell's Amazon Exit Story

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Jon Caldwell, an entrepreneur who transitioned from the army to business, shares his journey from starting a pet supplements br...

A Journey Through Three Exits with Collin Mitchell

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Collin Mitchell, Managing Partner at Leadium, shares insights from his entrepreneurial journey with three successful exits, one...

The Great Wealth Transfer with Jill Lloyd

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Jill Faherty Lloyd is a financial advisor who is truly influential when it comes to financial advisory for women. Jill shares h...

Why Money is Key to Validating an Idea with Raja Skogland

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Raja Skogland is the perfect example of why timing can be so important. Raja has had multiple exits but her most successful exi...

Playing Hard to Get to Get the Deal Done with Robbie Hardy

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: From selling her own company to mentoring other women entrepreneurs. This episode of the exit is a full circle entrepreneurial ...

Building and Exiting the World’s First Voice Analytics Companies with Alysia Silberg

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: From developing the world's first voice analytics-driven sales enablement application to working at the UN in championing women...

Achieving Financial Freedom by 40 with Jennifer Pereira

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Founder and Managing Partner of the Celestial Group, Jennifer Pereira, shares her goals for achieving financial freedom and why...

Treating Marketplace Businesses Like They’re Ecosystems with Elias Chavando

27 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit, host Steve McGarry sits down with marketplace expert Elias Chavando. The two discuss the intricacies that come with scaling a m...

The Intricacies of Exiting to a Manufacturer with Mark Samuel

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Mark Samuel shares his extensive background in consumer product-related industries, spanning over two decades. His first succes...

How to Grow from $0 to $9M, Exit & then Do it all Again with Seth Waite

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Seth’s entrepreneurial career started very early. By the age of 20 he had already founded and sold his first digital company,...

Raising $70 Million and Going Public with Dr. Steve Fox

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: This is an incredible story of Dr Steve Fox bringing together some of the best minds in the country to change the world of teet...

Busting The Most Common Investment Myths with Steffi Baker

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Steffi Baker has pushed herself not only in her career as a co-founder and investor, but also as a competitive figure skater, s...

How to Sell a Business That's Not Yet Profitable with Diego Sampaio

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Diego Sampaio’s career started at an early age. At 12 he was building websites and coding for friends and family. At 16 he in...

Growing to $12M in Annual Revenue and Knowing When To Exit with Redg Snodgrass

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Redg’s career started with a role at an eBay startup, where he witnessed the dynamic nature of startups firsthand. Having pla...

The Intricate Relationship Between Failure and Success with Helene Guillaume

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Helene Guillaume is focused on changing the world. A big sports person competing in triathlons, playing rugby, swimming and now...

Exiting to Yahoo for $10M with Eric Marcoullier

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Eric Marcoullier went through college wanting to be a DJ, but when he bought a copy of Wired magazine, a lightbulb went off for...

Exiting the World’s Largest Boat Rental Marketplace with Sascha Mornell

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: From the Japanese ice cream industry to US Federal Defense, Sascha Mornell has worked in vastly different industries, but throu...

Turning a Passion for Chicken Wings Into an Exit with Adam Lippin

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Embark on an extraordinary journey with Adam Lippin. His path to success is a tale of passion and innovation, his story a testa...

From the Kitchen to Unilever: Jaime Schmidt’s Exit Story

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Jaime’s journey into entrepreneurship began out of necessity. Dissatisfied with her corporate job, she left it all behind and...

12 Key Factors to Focus on when Scaling Your Business for an Exit with Greg Sloan

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: What do you do when you’ve spent years scaling your company with the goal of an exit but the acquiring company falls through?...

Bringing Diversity into Entrepreneurship with Andrea Inokon

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Faced with the harsh realities of gender and racial discrimination in her career, Andrea, a lawyer by training, made a transfor...

Pioneering Industry Transformation with Sergio Ribeiro

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Sergio Ribeiro, founder and CEO of Radiolife, has always thrived on embracing challenges. Armed with a computer science backgro...

Building Businesses with Veteran Entrepreneur Lara Morgan

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: We have a very special returning guest, who was in the first ever episode of the show. Lara Morgan needs no introduction – sh...

Bridging the Gender Gap in VC with Delilah Panio

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Delilah Panio has been in the capital markets for over 25 years, and since the very start of her career, she noticed that VC is...

From Selling a PDF to Exiting a SaaS Company for 7-Figures with Brecht Palombo

28 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Brecht Palombo’s business was down 90% year-on-year after the Global Financial Crisis when he knew he had to find another way...

Putting $1 Billion in the Hands of Female Founders with Sarah Chen-Spellings

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Sarah’s path to entrepreneurship has been one of many twists and turns, eventually leading her to co-found an investment fund...

Exiting to PayPal One Week Before IPO with Maria Hedengren

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Maria Hedengren shares her passion for financial analysis and exit preparation, including preparing for an IPO. When Maria was ...

From TV Show Creator to Entrepreneur and Investor with Tami Holzman

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Tami Holzman started out in the entertainment industry, from talent agency to movie studios. It was during this time she cut h...

Selling a Powerful 11M Users Software with Stuart Prestedge

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Stuart Prestedge is a seasoned software startup coach and founder of multiple successful businesses. Coming from a family of en...

Selling a Concept and a Brand with Sarah Barnes-Humphrey

24 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: When Sarah joined her father’s company straight out of high school she never expected she would go on to carve out a brand ne...

Startup to Stability with Dean van Zyl

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Dean van Zyl was fired from his first three jobs, and in his own words, “wasn’t very hireable”. He turned to entrepreneur...

Exiting to the Leading Sales Engagement Platform with Rod Feuer

10 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Rod Feuer shares his journey from the selfish pursuits of awards and accolades, to finding creative growth that ultimately resu...

Achieving a 13x Multiple Exit with Andrew Christodoulides

03 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Andrew Christodoulides’s family immigrated to the US to pursue a better life. During his first year of college, a setback occ...

Defining the Mobile Video Production Industry with Matt Heiman

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Exit: From selling lemonade to neighbors to figuring out ways to improve the economic models of tennis lessons, Matt Heiman always ha...

Exiting a 7-Figure Marketing Agency with Beau Haralson

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When he was graduating, his profile said Beau could have been either a marketer, a park ranger or a pastor. Despite his appreciation for the outdoors,...

Negotiating with Fidel Castro and Multiple Exits with David Radlo

12 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Exit: From politics to eggs, David Radlo has not only had big exits, but he’s also done business with big leaders like Fidel Castro...

Strategies For Successful Exits with Wayne Slavitt

05 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Exit: Wayne Slavitt has spent half of his career being an entrepreneur, starting and running companies, and the other half working as...

Exiting a $12M Marketplace with Nathan Hirsch

29 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the exit: Nathan Hirsch describes himself as a long-time entrepreneur. He started working at 15, and soon realized that he didn’t reall...

Online M&A Trends and Insights with Flippa CEO, Blake Hutchison

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the exit: Get the inside word from Flippa CEO, Blake Hutchison, who shares insights from the largest marketplace to buy and sell online b...

22 Exits from $3K to $2.3B and Everything in Between with Nick Bradley

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Nick’s very first exit came from a personal training business he started when he was 16 years old in the late 80s. He sold th...

The Invention of a Category, an Exit & an IPO with Bobby Yazdani

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Born in Tehran, Iran, Bobby Yazdani left the country at age 16 during the Iranian Revolution. Jumping forward, Bobby graduated ...

Revolutionizing Women’s Reproductive Health with Will Sacks

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: When he was in college, Will Sacks and a bunch of friends raised enough money to turn their dream of a solar powered race car i...

From Rock Bottom to Exiting with Don McLaughlin

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Don McLaughlin was working as an inhouse lawyer for a consulting firm that served the Fortune 500 when he saw an opportunity to...

When Investment Turns Into an Acquisition with John Knific

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Sometimes timing can change everything. John Knific and his business partners Kate Volzer and Kris Ciccarello started Wisr.io, ...

Estonian-Founder Exits to Japanese Tech Giant Rakuten with Heikki Haldre

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: When Heikki Haldre was at university, his brother gave him a computer and told him that it didn’t matter what he did as long ...

How to Exit for 10x Annual Recurring Revenue with Eddie Whittingham

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: When Eddie Whittingham left the police force to become a lawyer, he never expected to eventually leave law to start his own cyb...

Exiting for an Offer Too Good to Refuse with Adam Martel

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Adam sits down with us to share his journey of exiting when the offer was too good to refuse. After a varied career from volley...

An Acquisition that Resulted in $30 Million Growth in Two Years with Marty Fahncke

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: From a young age Marty Fahncke had an entrepreneurial drive, as a kid he started a bike refurbishment business. And this entrep...

How to Turn Your Passion into a Successful Exit with Lee Blaylock

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Lee Blaylock is a third generation entrepreneur: both his grandfather and father were real estate entrepreneurs, so Lee was bou...

Exiting a Marketing-Tech Startup for $20MM with Bob Gilbreath

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Bob remembers the very first time he logged into AOL and thinking “I’ve got to be a part of this internet thing”. After B...

Exiting to a Silicon Valley Unicorn in 30 Days with Adam Landis

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Adam started AdLibertas as a mobile advertising business, but after a few years, it was clear that scaling the business was har...

Exiting to the University they Studied at with Yuxin Zhu

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: In freshman year, Yuxin wanted to improve his grades with new classes, but he soon realized finding the right ones through his ...

How to Exit a Travel Business During a Global Lockdown with Cyrus Ghazanfar

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: How do you exit a travel business during a global lockdown? When Cyrus Ghazanfar co-founded Pilota, a machine learning product ...

Exiting to Samsonite After Selling 29 Million Bags with Jon Nordmark

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Jon Nordmark was working at Samsonite in the 90s, for eight years Jon learnt about the bag business from the ground up and mana...

Exiting on a High After the Cannabis Boom with Sara Gullickson

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Sara didn’t know that answering an ad on Craigslist for a cannabis agency would result in her buying, building and eventually...

Seizing the Opportunity with a Medical Device Company with Zeynep Ilgaz

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Zeynep Ilgaz migrated from Turkey 25 years ago with two suitcases and $5K to her name and made the American dream a reality. No...

Gaming Exit for $650MM to EA with Jason Kapalka

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: When Jason co-founded gaming start-up PopCap, never in his wildest dreams did he imagine exiting to EA for $650MM. The business...

How To Prepare for an Easy Exit with Kim McGuinness

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Scared by unceremoniously losing her job when the newspaper she was working at shut down, Kim vowed to start her own business s...

From EdTech Innovation Exit to Entrepreneurial Education with Cecilia Zywicki

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cecilia Zywicki is a seasoned EdTech entrepreneur who is fascinated by innovation around learning. Cecilia’s first business, Ranku, was planned out ...

Exiting for a Record Multiple to Morgan Stanley with Dru Riess

26 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: The minute Dru left college he was on the hunt for an opportunity. His desperation took him to a dusty barn in Dallas with an o...

Exiting to Vistaprint for $117.5M with Touraj Parang

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Touraj wrote the book on successfully exiting a business. Quickly realizing his passion for creating products, after working at a VC firm which he des...

$1.5B Unicorn Exit to Adobe with Scott Johnson

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Scott had the elusive unicorn exit when he sold Workfront to Adobe for $1.5 billion. From teaching seminary, his career took a ...

From PayPal to Founder with Daniel Bessmert

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Fintech guru, Daniel Bessmert, shares his experience founding and scaling 3 companies all in the finance and payment space, and...

A Big Exit to a Big Consulting Group with Denise Hummel Isaacson

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Denise Hammel Isaacson shares what dedication and a desire for change can achieve, and how to scale intellectual property throu...

Fast Growth and Big Exits with Farhad Mohammadi

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This Week on The Exit: Farhad accidentally got into the startup ecosystem and now has 14 years of entrepreneurial experience under his belt. He co-fou...

Handling the Rollercoaster of Entrepreneurial Endeavors with Natalie Ferguson

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Natalie is a serial business builder and exiter having co-founded 6 businesses. Having recently completed her latest exit, Nata...

An Entrepreneurial Journey into Space with Meagan Murphy Crawford

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: In Meagan’s perspective, the future of acquisition is in communities, and this is exactly why her first business, an electron...

Jumping on Trends with Brett Martin

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Brett Martin is changing the world of virtual office space and events but he wasn’t always so focused on solving real problem...

Knowing when to Exit with Arie Trouw

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: With 5 startups under his belt, Arie Trouw knows how to build a business to sell. He started developing software when he was in...

From Skin Care to Planet Care with Sian Sutherland

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On The Exit this week: Sian Sutherland shares her one-of-a-kind entrepreneurial journey, from running restaurants in London to creating a pregnancy sk...

Starting a Leading European Food Delivery Service with Ana Mineva

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On The Exit this week: How does a young girl who grew up in communist Bulgaria end up starting a leading food delivery business? When Ana returned to ...

The Right Time To Exit was Yesterday with Amy Yin

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Amy Yin has a passion for working in starts at the early stages which led to her working at Facebook, Hire.com and CoinBase. Bu...

From Fear to Three Successful Exits with Satish Bala

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Growing up, Satish Bala was told he wasn’t a good student, instead of squashing his ambition, this belief pushed him towards ...

Beginning with the End in Mind with Richard Manders

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week our host Steve McGarry is joined by Richard Manders, Co-Founder of Freescale Coaching. Steve and Richard start the show talking about what g...

Building Communities of Investors with Richard Patey

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week our host Steve McGarry is joined by Richard Patey, the Director of The Investor Community at Flippa. To start the show Steve and Richard tal...

Talking Through a Career of Multiple Exits with Patrice Barber

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week our host Steve McGarry is joined by Patrice Barber, Current CEO and Founder of Career CNX. To start the show Patrice talks about how at an e...

Supporting Women in Business & Tech Achieving Their Potential with Nicole Yeary

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Why is it so hard for female entrepreneurs to raise capital for their business ventures? This is what Nicole Yearing found hers...

Risk Taking, Music A.I and New Opportunities with Hazel Savage

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Journey through music AI with Hazel Savage, ex CEO and CO-Founder at Musiio. When Hazel got gifted a guitar at 13, she knew her...

Defining Modern Day Startups with Nick Swinmurn - Founder of Zappos.com

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: the story of a revolutionary startup. Picture this: it's 1999 and you desperately want to buy a pair of shoes, so you go to the...

Following the mind’s creative quests with Estelle Lloyd.

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: Meet Estelle Lloyd, drawn to improve things, and find solutions from a young age. That same desire drove her to start her first...

Disrupting the Cocktail Industry with Frankie Snobel

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Exit: If you are a fan of Negronis and Espresso Martinis, you will thoroughly enjoy this episode! Frankie’s passion for perfectly c...

Mastering the Art of Exiting with Jon Carson

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Exit: meet Jon Carson. He is a multi-exit education entrepreneur, with 30 years of experience starting, scaling and exiting businesse...

Making an Impact from Personal Experience with Ryan Frankel

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week our host Steve McGarry sits down with Ryan Frankel. Ryan is the exited founder of “Verbalize It”, and the Current Founder and CEO of “...

From Events to Entrepreneurialism with Eleonora Rocca

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week our host Steve McGarry sits down with Eleonora Rocca, the Founder of WomenX Impact and Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer for Horizone G...

Pushing the Bounds of Sun Care and Business with Derek Jouppi

04 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week our host Steve McGarry sits down with Derek Jouppi, the Exited Co-Founder of the startup “Suncayr”. Where Derek and his team were able t...

Preparing For an Exit Properly with Nick Telson

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week our host Steve McGarry sits down with Nick Telson to talk about his entrepreneurial journey. They touch on some of his current projects like...

Taking Podcasting to New Heights with Melinda Wittstock - CEO of Podopolo

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Founder and CEO of Podopolo, Melinda Wittstock is fast-scaling the world's first socially-interactive and gamified podcast app and network. Think Spot...

Building a Global Community of Female Investors with Anne Cocquyt

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anne Cocquyt didn’t come from a traditional entrepreneurial background. It wasn’t until she got into the world of consulting that she realized sh...

What are You Going to Solve with Joe Meyer

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Meyer is currently the Founder and CEO of CentralBOS, which provides cloud-based, ERP SaaS solutions for small to mid-sized businesses. Prior to t...