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Selling My Company Taught Me More Than Building It | Ajay Bulusu - E731
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Ajay Bulusu sold NextBillion.ai after a two-year process, and his verdict on cross-border M&A is blunt: 99% of attempts fail, and the founders who never sell are usually stopped by greed rather than by the market. He tells Jeremy Au why 2021 SaaS valuations stopped being fundable the moment ChatGPT arrived, why he picked a number before he started and walked the day he hit it, and why age not coming back mattered more than the last dollar. Then he explains why he started again immediately. After losing his father to a side effect of his cancer treatment, and...
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Trust me, it is not easy to sell a company. The number of things I have learned selling my company is more than building my company actually. Because there's so many things and 99% it will fail. The odds are heavily stacked against you in M&A.
But if you're stuck in that thing that, oh, I've not even made like personally 5 million, why should I sell my company? Then you will never sell your company. It is brave to do a second company because the expectation from a second time founder is very high.
Hey, Ajay. Good to see you in person. Hey Jeremy, good to see you again after so long. I know right. We did that recording of Hot Spot in person.
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