Business Exits

The following advice is boring. But it keeps making me millions every year. If you really want to scale your business, focus on what I call the 'perfect repeatable week'. Work out what you need to do every single week…

Just closed an extremely challenging deal. The kind that takes over everything for a while. Hard to fully turn off, even when you try. Going into this trip, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to step away from it. But we got i…

I've done it seven times now. And it's never once been about luck. Taking a business from idea to seven figures in the first 12 months. It only happens because I follow a narrow set of best practices, in the right or…

Don't randomly raise your prices. You might just kill your business. It's often the case, especially right now, that customers are price conscious and even a slight rise will cause them to start looking elsewhere. If…

Jack Dorsey just published something that should be required reading for every founder. The premise: the org chart needs to be replaced entirely. And the argument starts 2,000 years ago. For thousands of years, every o…

Founder at country club: “I sold for $40 million.” The actual cash at closing:

Pierre Gaubil a co-fondé 3 entreprises : - une introduction en bourse (IPO) - deux exits Il a dirigé des entreprises internationales aux États-Unis et en Europe et a été directeur général d’un fonds d’amorçage américain…

Your M&A deal doesn’t become a bad one in the first 95%. It becomes a bad deal in the last 5%. When you’re tired, just want it done, and start giving things away. Almost every founder is prone to this major mistake. …

The YC W26 Demo Day has just concluded, and it’s absolute madness. Records were again broken. • 3x more startups hit $1M ARR in 3 months • 10+ companies at $100M+ valuations • One startup: $27M ARR in 6 months • Found…