Andrew Gazdecki - Founder of Micro Acquire Speaks on Building Start-Ups and Getting Acquired

The Casey Adams Show

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Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Andrew Gazdecki is an award-winning serial entrepreneur with three exits. He’s the founder and CEO of MicroAcquire, the world’s most founder-friendly startup marketplace, and its rebellious child, Bootstrappers, which gives voice to the entrepreneurial underdog. When not building businesses, he writes for Forbes, Entrepreneur, and now, Bootstrappers. Learn more about MicroAcquire (now Acquire): https://microacquire.com/ Follow Andrew Gazdecki on Twitter: https://twitter.com/agazdecki - Subscribe to The Casey Adams Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-casey-adams-show/id1328795944 Follow me on social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/casey Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CaseyAdams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back to the Casey Adams show.
0:03.8	Today we have Andrew Gazdecki, the CEO of MicroAquire on the show.
0:09.9	Thanks so much coming on, Andrew.
0:12.0	Yeah, Casey, thanks for having me.
0:14.1	And probably actually CEO of Acquire.com coming up pretty soon here.
0:18.6	I was going to say, I mean, you recently acquired Acquire.com.
0:23.2	I know that you were tweeting about it the last week.
0:26.1	And I wanted to start with that because, I mean, that's a huge rebrand, an exciting rebrand in my opinion.
0:31.9	And I'd love to hear sort of how that came about and how long you've been thinking about it.
0:36.5	And, you know, this is kind of in my eyes as someone that's not in the business,
0:40.7	like pre-transitioned, it sounds like. So I'd love to dive into that.
0:46.3	Yeah, definitely. So it's been a domain I've been chasing for two years or I would say. I've been in touch with the
0:59.2	seller or the owner, I should say, and just had negotiations or a conversation dialogue open.
1:06.7	I was, I took my first vacation of the year two weeks ago in Hawaii,
1:12.6	and he kind of came out of the woodwork,
1:16.6	and I'm just like sitting by a pool,
1:19.9	and he's like, hey, are you interested in buying it?
1:23.8	And we came to terms, and then I started, you know, I wanted to make sure that,
1:31.0	you know, people who are familiar with the microcar brand supported it. So before actually
1:36.9	acquiring the domain, I ran polls, I asked, I'm sure he probably could have, you know, push up the price, but we had an agreed price.
1:47.6	So he was aware of, you know, what I was doing, so to speak.
1:50.8	Because I said like, hey, we're, you know, we could be going into a recession.
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