Build to Exit with David Perez

The Exit - Presented By Flippa

Technology

5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Exit: “If you can’t make a sale, you have no business…but with sales comes rejection.” David Perez is a seasoned entrepreneur who has sold two companies, generated millions from Fortune100 customers, and has served as an advisor for founders and businesses. Through the rollercoaster ride of his business journey, one constant that he believes led to his success is in becoming comfortable with and energized by rejection. From his first venture in 1999 building corporate websites to his medical documentation company, he discusses how he identified the opportunities that became his businesses, lessons learned when structuring his exit deals, and thoughts on characteristics to embody to succeed in business. For the full details of his journey and the gems along the way, listen to the latest episode of the Exit. David Perez is an accomplished entrepreneur with a successful track record of starting and building B2C and B2B technology companies in the fields of healthcare technology, data analytics, and digital marketing. With a strong background in sales, marketing, and branding, David also has extensive experience raising capital, mergers and acquisitions, SaaS platforms, software development, market research and education. As the CEO of The Santa Fe Group, David led the sale of the Shared Assessments program to One Trust in May 2021. In 2011, David started Seamless Medical Systems creating the leading platform for patient check in and medical practice efficiency. Seamless was sold to GetWellNetwork in January 2017. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidjperez/ Website: For a Free Flippa Business Valuation: https://flippa.com/exit -- The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the exit presented by Flip Up the number one platform to buy and sell online businesses
0:05.9	Flipa manages over a billion in deal value annually and combines expert buy and sell side advisory with its market leading valuation tool,
0:14.2	Deal Room, Off Market Offering, Market Insights,
0:17.3	an AI-based deal-by-deal matching engine.
0:20.7	Now for the exit.
0:21.9	The exit is a 30 minute podcast featuring awesome
0:24.4	entrepreneurs who have been there and they have done it. The exit talks to
0:27.6	operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes. You learn
0:31.5	how they did it, why they did it and get
0:33.8	exposure to the world of exits it's a world occupied by a small few but
0:38.2	accessible to many on this episode of the exit I sit down with David Perez. He's a fantastic entrepreneur with two
0:45.6	exits and he's throwing around a lot of big brand names in this. Some really incredible, powerful
0:52.2	relationships that he's developed with Fortune 100 companies,
0:55.8	raising millions and millions in capital and exiting multiple times is something that very few people get to experience.
1:04.0	And David walks through his experience in New York City going through 2001 and 2008,
1:11.0	and then coming to Santa Fe, where him and his family are now and there's just a lot of really incredible
1:18.6	Wisdom in this interview and one of the coolest parts of this was he said that you need to take rejection
1:26.1	like a log being thrown on your fire that is motivating you. And I think that it's
1:32.4	such a really clever way of looking at how
1:36.0	rejection is motivation and free framing that is such a beautiful way of looking at it. So
1:42.3	there's so much great wisdom in this
1:44.4	conversation with David, with just deep levels of entrepreneurship and the
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