The Exit - Presented By Flippa

Today’s guest on the Exit, presented by Flippa, is Michael Gallucci. Michael has had great success building a sports memorabilia company from the ground up, scaling it, and ultimately exiting as the global leader of sports memorabilia." Sportsmemorabilia.com had humble beginnings as a self funded startup, but through hard work and SEO tactics, they began to make waves. After their sale to Fanatics...

Today's guest on the Exit, presented by Flippa, is San Eng. San is currently a Managing Partner at Skytian Capital, an International multi-strategy investment holding company. He’s also a real estate investor and crypto and blockchain enthusiast. Prior to that, he’s had some success in building and exiting businesses. He talks about everything from team building to timing. Earning A Living As A Wa...

Today on the Exit, presented by Flippa, we are talking with Patrick Sullivan, founder and CEO of Bonsai, an online platform that connects individuals seeking career and business advice. Before founding Bonsai, Patrick had some very successful exits to large companies like Google and Facebook. Today, he shares how those acquisition conversations began and how the process transpired. Small Beginning...

Today on The Exit Podcast, we interview the CEO of Trinity Audio, Ron Jaworski. With a long list of experience and a successful exit of $13million, Ron has some stories to tell. With his first business being in the night-life industry, Ron learned a lot about people. He took what he learned and created companies in both the media and audio industries. As someone that doesn’t shy away from using fa...

Today's guest is Luis Cambronero Perez, the current head of sales at Aza Finance. He is here to share the story of his exit from Transfer Zero, a fintech startup that changed the money transfer business. He’s also a freelance Senior Sales consultant that helps companies in the financial sector, including crypto. Spain’s Very First Fintech Company Born in Spain, Luis’s father was an interpreter. Du...

Today we are talking with Jeff Durso, the co-founder of Blitzr, a one-on-one conversations platform. Graduating from MIT just as the internet was being created, Jeff benefited greatly from the dot-com boom. With an exit to the tune of $10million, he was just getting started. Being a part of several startups, Jeff has plenty of knowledge to share and does so through a Startup Mastermind group. Down...

Today we are talking with Chris Heivly, current Managing Director of Build The Fort, and former Co-Founder of MapQuest. Co-founding the first commercial web mapping service was Chris’s first real foray into entrepreneurship. As the Managing Director of Build The Fort, Chris helps other entrepreneurs through his books, speaking, workshops, and consulting. Fast-forward 20+ years, Chris has a lot of...

On today’s episode of the Exit Podcast, we are talking with Chris Gladwin, the Co-Founder and CEO of Ocient. Prior to that, he had multiple successful exits, including the sale of Cleversafe, a data storage and distribution company. With plenty of venture backed partners, Chris helped to raise over $100million to grow the company. His hard work would pay off when the company sold for over $1billio...

Today on The Exit, presented by Flippa, we are talking with Chris Boudreau, CEO of a start-up tech Ripe Metrics, a cannabis customer experience management platform. Chris has completed exits in several areas of the cannabis industry, including delivery, logistics, and distribution. He’s a seasoned operator that will talk to us about everything from cannabis as an emerging market to the difficultie...

In this episode of The Exit, Ken Harlan reflects the different paths that led him to where he is now. As the CEO of MobileFuse, a company focused on mobile advertising, he has started and exited multiple companies over the years. He is an advocate for learning and finding new opportunities, and he’s here to inspire other entrepreneurs to do the same. There’s Something To Learn Everywhere You Go Ke...

Today we are talking with Lea Ellermeier, an entrepreneur who has started multiple businesses and has had an impressive exit with 3M. She also is the author of Finding The Exit: It’s Not Where You Start, It’s Where You Finish. Her next endeavor is to host a podcast called Don’t Freak Out Today. She’s passionate about helping other entrepreneurs, as she has 20+ years of experience. Useful Creations...

Today’s guest is the CEO of Adapt.io. Sanjit Singh is here to share how every exit is not the same, as he had a really cool and unique exit. He proves there are multiple ways to have a liquidity event. As a mentor to many, Sanjit has plenty of knowledge to share. Sanjit entered the workforce in sales before he moved up the ranks at a very entrepreneurial Fortune500 company. Next he would go into m...

Today’s guest, Dan Caruso, has had multiple $10+billion exits! Dan is the managing director of Caruso Ventures, where he specializes in investment management. From taking companies public to private, it’s all a complex process, but Dan does it all. By noticing trends early on, Dan has made some wise investments in startup companies, knows how to build one scratch, and come in and improve an existi...

What happens when you’re ready to launch a business but receive an exit offer too good to refuse? Our next guest, Paul Wasserman, did just that. After trying various career paths, Paul decided to start his own company. He tossed around ideas with his friend for months, ultimately landing on Ebates.com, a business vision that finally came to him while on a long, mind-numbing drive. Although it had...

Today we’re talking to Cheryl Contee, the CEO at The Impact Seat, and the co-founder of Do Big Things. While attending Yale, Cheryl was a struggling minority scholarship student that was required to do work study while enrolled. She says the highest paying job option was in the kitchen at $17/hour, with the next highest paying job being at the help desk for $8/hour. Cheryl not only couldn’t see he...

Today we’re talking to Deanna Brown, a serial entrepreneur who has had multiple successful exits. Starting in the media business, Deanna quickly found a love for being an entrepreneur when she helped to launch the website, Epicurious. She’s been through a variety of different exits, but says a solid team has always been a strong selling point. Through an open mind approach, Deanna has been able to...

Today we are talking with Steven Charlap, co-founder and CEO of SOAP Health. Dr. Charlap hopes that using AI to gather medical information will transform how preventive medicine works. SOAP stands for the Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan. Before SOAP Health, Dr. Charlap successfully started, ran, and sold Health Drive. It was a company he spent 20+ years at before his heart just wasn’t...

Today we’re talking to Kimberly Caccavo, a founding partner of Face Your Grace, a multimedia approach to help women become entrepreneurs. Kimberly previously went through an exit with a prior guest of Flippa, Kate Nowlan. Kimberly and Kate were CEO’s of Graced By Grit, a women's athletic apparel brand, before it was sold to Hylete. Through that experience, Kimberly learned a lot, and now she has a...

Today we are talking to Diane Prince, a successful serial entrepreneur. Having started, scaled, and exited a handful of businesses, Diane is a wealth of knowledge. She presently uses this knowledge to coach other entrepreneurs in getting to the next step in their business. In a world full of coaches, Diane actually has the real life experience to back up her training. She’s here to share how she f...

Today we are talking with Natasia Malaihollo, the founder of Wyzerr and Head of Business Development for PopCom. She started out her career as a patent attorney, where she was introduced to the world of startups. She was so inspired by the startup world that she quit her job and started her own company. Not only that, but she learned many lessons from that endeavor and took that knowledge to creat...

Today we’re talking with Laura Coe, successful author, coach, and podcast host. Laura was the co-founder and COO of a health focused company, Litholink, before it was acquired by Lab Corp. Going from a philosophy student to working for her father's lab business is not how she saw her life going, but she says it’s been an impactful ride. Going from a company of 50 people to a company with thousands...

Today we’re talking with the CEO of BrainTrust, Sherry Deutschmann. Sherry had a rough start to her working career, but never gave up. With no college education, she relied on her grit to pull herself up by the bootstraps. It took a poor work experience to inspire Sherry to start her own company that put employees first. Learn how her approach got her noticed and ultimately acquired. -- The Exit -...

Today we’re talking with the CEO and co-founder of Equilibria, Coco Meers. As a CPG marketer by trade, Coco says it was lucky that she discovered the world of startups. She’s always been focused on women’s wellness and beauty, and started out at L'Oréal in New York as a brand manager before going to work at their headquarters in Paris. She describes her job as keeping an initiative on budget, on b...

Today we’re talking with Alexa Von Tobel, the founder and managing partner at Aspired Capital. Alexa was inspired to create her first company out of a need for financial guidance when she was just starting out. She not only created a successful company, but had a very successful exit 8 years later. She shares the entire process from beginning to end, sharing many knowledge nuggets along the way. -...

Today we’re talking with Mac Lackey, founder of Exit DNA, a company that helps business owners to understand the unique strategies that get results when it comes to an exit. Mac says he thinks of his life in two big pieces, with the first half being all about soccer. He says growing up, all of his goals were soccer related. He played through college and even professionally briefly. One day, he wok...