Disrupting Aviation Education: Jason Schappert's M0A Success Story

The Exit - Presented By Flippa

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5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Want a quick estimate of how much your business is worth? With our free valuation calculator, answer a few questions about your business and you’ll get an immediate estimate of the value of your business. You might be surprised by how much you can get for it: https://flippa.com/exit -- In this episode of The Exit: Jason Schappert, founder of M0A, shares his journey from flight instructor to successful entrepreneur, specifically discussing how he bootstrapped M0A, an online aviation education platform, from zero to an eight-figure exit over 16 years. Jason highlights the challenges of disrupting traditional aviation education by moving ground school online, facing skepticism but ultimately proving successful. The exit process, initiated by a customer inquiry, took 10 months to complete. While that sounds like smooth sailing, Jason mentions how valuable the two previously failed acquisition attempts were in preparing the company for its eventual successful exit and the importance of subscription-based revenue and proprietary technology in achieving a favorable valuation. For more details and insights from his entrepreneurial journey, listen to the latest episode of The Exit. -- Jason Schappert is a serial entrepreneur and financial technology visionary dedicated to empowering individuals to achieve financial freedom. He is the co-founder of Moola, an AI-driven investment platform that simplifies complex financial concepts and provides personalized insights and recommendations to help users make informed investment decisions. Prior to Moola, Jason successfully built and exited a previous business, demonstrating his entrepreneurial prowess and ability to build successful ventures from the ground up. He is a passionate advocate for financial literacy and believes that everyone deserves access to the tools and knowledge necessary to achieve financial security. Jason is a strong leader, committed to continuous learning and personal development, and a devoted husband and father. His mission is to empower the next generation to take control of their financial futures and create a world where everyone has the opportunity to achieve financial freedom and live a life free from financial stress. Websites: https://moo.la/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moola_copilot/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonschappert/ Check Out Flippa’s Data Insights Tool: https://flippa.com/data-insights -- 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	Before we get into the exit today, I want to talk about the certified M&A advisors that are on Flippa.
0:06.2	If you are an operator right now, running a business and you're thinking about exiting, you are going to want to get a free online business valuation on the exit
0:15.7	landing page without a doubt it is the smartest thing you can do to start a process and
0:20.9	get yourself organized so you're going to go to the
0:24.0	URL FLIPA.com slash exit to check out more and let's jump into the interview.
0:29.8	Hello and welcome to the exit presented by FLIPA, the number one platform to buy and sell online businesses.
0:35.5	Flippa manages over a billion in deal value annually and combines expert buy and sell side advisory with its market leading valuation tool,
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0:46.8	an AI-based deal-by-deal matching engine.
0:50.3	Now for the exit.
0:51.6	The exit is a 30 minute podcast featuring awesome
0:54.0	entrepreneurs who have been there and they have done it. The exit talks to
0:57.3	operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes. You learn
1:01.1	how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to
1:04.1	the world of exits. It's a world occupied by a small few but accessible to
1:08.7	many. On this episode the exit I sit down with Jason Sch. He's a fantastic entrepreneur that grew M0A from
1:17.3	zero as a bootstrapped business all the way to an eight figure exit. That's right. He scaled this team in a
1:24.7	phenomenal way from the ground up by basically taking ground to school as an
1:31.2	aviation instructor online and I love the disruption of something like this
1:36.3	because teaching people to fly over the internet was definitely criticized by
1:40.8	people when he first started and I really like not only the story of the
1:45.1	success but also just sharing the adversity when getting started and you have an
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