ProfitLed Podcast

Acquisition

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18 years 6 months and 18 days to Exit | Alejandro Pérez

"The goal is not making money. If you add value, you're going to start making money."

Alejandro Pérez

Founder / ex-CEO

Two Life Changing Exits in 14 Months | Peter Hwang

"What you take from failure will carve out your future."

Founder, President and CEO

3 People, $4.6m Bootstrapped to Exit | Esben Friis-Jensen

"The ultimate goal was to do whatever I want, whenever I want. Financial freedom was a sub-goal."

Esben Friis-Jensen

Co-founder of Userflow

The Price of €20M in 4 Years | Chris Erler

"If your body doesn't work, nothing is fun. The most money in the world won’t fix that."

Bootstrapped 20 Years to Life Changing Exit | Simon Swords

"The money is a happy side effect of what I did. To have done it purely for that wouldn't have yielded the same outcome."

The Route to Wealth and Freedom Nobody Talks About

"If you are bootstrapped, you don’t need to grow unicorn porn style. Grow 30-40% per year and after $10m, magic happens."

Post Acquisition Learnings After 12 Years Bootstrapping

"I pitched to one VC, that was enough. I wanted to prove that I could do it on my own."