Exit Algorithms

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Ben Buckley got fired, had four kids to feed, and turned $50 TV installs into an eight-figure business serving Apple, Salesforce, and Samsung. In this episode, we break down how he bootstrapped Digital Dreams, why the smallest d...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. The same business with a $1M EBITDA can sell for $3M or $8M, and the difference comes down to systems, structure, and timing. In this episode, we break down how to prepare your company for a high-value exit, why entity structure...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. It costs 6 times more to win a new customer than to keep one, yet most businesses have zero retention budget. In this episode, we break down how to build a Disney-level customer experience, why documented systems add real value...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. 95% of corporate AI implementations fail because companies try to replace workers instead of empowering them. In this episode, we break down how to use AI to train and amplify your people, why human knowledge is your most valuab...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Most business owners think a CFO is just a bookkeeper—until they go to sell and get their valuation slashed. In this episode, we break down what really drives business value, how to prepare your company for a successful exit, an...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Most Google Ads accounts are a mess, and 95% of agencies are doing very poor work. In this episode, we break down exactly why businesses waste money on paid search, what the biggest Google Ads mistakes are, and how AI is complet...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Most sellers leave value on the table because they wait until the last minute. In this episode, we break down how to turn around struggling operations, what private equity really looks for, and how to start preparing two to thre...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Most tech projects fail in the first two or three weeks, before anyone even notices. In this episode, we break down why software and AI rollouts go sideways, what project governance a growing company actually needs, and how to g...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Once you hit a million in revenue, the founder becomes the growth ceiling. In this episode, we break down how to remove yourself as the bottleneck, build a decision system that pushes choices down to your team, and use AI and ps...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. 2026 is the year to stop running AI pilots and start deploying into production. In this episode, we break down how to implement AI that drives immediate ROI, how to prepare your company for a clean exit, and why owning your AI s...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Most paid ad budgets fail for one reason: you cannot tie marketing data to business outcomes. In this episode, we break down how to build a paid media engine that actually drives revenue, why measurement comes before creative, a...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. One raw story can become a carousel, a blog post, a newsletter, and a funder update, if you build the right system. In this episode, we break down how to use AI to create content at scale, why context beats clever prompts, and h...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Your customers are no longer Googling. They are asking ChatGPT, and the question is whether your business gets recommended. In this episode, we break down how to get discovered in AI search, build brand authority through digital...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. By the time a buyer calls you, 95% of the decision is already made. In this episode, we break down how to build a marketing engine that drives revenue, why brand gravity wins deals before they start, and how AI is reshaping B2B...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. The best time to prepare your business for sale is years before you actually sell it. In this episode, we break down how to build a business that sells, what acquirers actually score, and the exit planning lessons that lead to a...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Automation is not just for Amazon. In this episode, we break down warehouse automation for business owners: how to decide what to automate, when it actually pays off, and the costly mistakes to avoid, with Dan Cahalan, sales dir...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. If a lender or investor digs into your business today, what would they find? In this episode, we break down what lenders and investors actually look for before deploying capital, how to build a financial model that earns trust,...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Most small businesses do not have a communications strategy. They have scattered marketing, a logo, and a founder posting from a company account. In this episode, we break down how to build brand trust, create authentic content,...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. If your business cannot run without you, a private equity buyer will price that risk right out of your valuation. In this episode, we break down how to remove key person risk, increase business value, and prepare your company to...

In this episode, we sit down with Alistair Hofert, founder of Synapse Squared, to break down how business owners can build real AI strategy, redesign their business models around technology, and future-proof their companies before competitors do it for them. Alistair is a Senator at the World Business Angels Investment Forum, a member of the MIT Technology Review Global Panel and McKinsey Online E...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Exit Algorithms Episode #65 is live and this one is packed! Laurie Barkman is a certified M&A advisor, certified exit planning advisor, former CEO of a $100M revenue business unit that was acquired by a global Fortune 50 com...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Most business owners are not building a business. They are building a job. And when it is time to sell, buyers can tell the difference immediately. John S. Smith Jr., registered nurse turned serial entrepreneur, certified exit p...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Clean books, owner dependence, client concentration, and the psychology of selling your business. Rob Kale, SMB investor, M&A advisor, partner at Business Exits, and co-founder of Vetting Vault, joins Exit Algorithms for a n...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Robotics, capital efficiency, AI-powered engineering, and why focus is the fastest path to scale. Hiten Sonpal, CEO of Rise Robotics, joins Exit Algorithms to share how he went from building life-saving bomb disposal robots at i...

Do you own a transportation or 3PL business doing $3M or more in revenue? Visit www.bizexitgrow.com to find out how we can help you grow, scale, and exit at maximum value. Zone of genius, go-to-market strategy, and why hiring full-time back-office staff is a mistake. Adam Spector, four-time founder, investor in over 200 startups, and CEO of Chor, joins Exit Algorithms to discuss how founders waste...