5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the exit presented by Flipup, the number one platform to buy and sell online businesses. |
0:06.0 | Flipup manages over a billion in deal value annually and combines expert buy and sell side advisory with its market leading valuation tool, |
0:14.0 | deal room, off market offering, market insights and an AI base deal by deal matching engine. Now for the exit. |
0:22.0 | The exit is a 30 minute podcast featuring awesome entrepreneurs who have been there and they have done it. |
0:27.0 | The exit talks to operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes. You learn how they did it. |
0:32.0 | Why they did it and get exposure to the world of exits. It's a world occupied by a small few but accessible to many on this episode of the exit. |
0:41.0 | I sit down with Eric Marcullier. He's an awesome entrepreneur who started IGN, which eventually was sold for $600 million. |
0:51.0 | Not only that, but he started another company that got acquired by Yahoo from multiple millions of dollars and it's a fantastic story. |
1:01.0 | He has five successful exits. We really dig deep into the going public company of IGN and also the Yahoo acquisition and just the crazy story that happened afterwards. |
1:12.0 | He digs into why he doesn't like urn outs and just how a person that was his advocate in the company that acquired him. |
1:21.0 | Yahoo basically showed a presentation. There was two slides and it was a beautiful example of simplifying how big a mission could be. |
1:31.0 | He does a great job of unpacking each one of these acquisitions that were very large public acquisitions. |
1:38.0 | It's a really great example of someone who has learned a lot of lessons and Eric walks through some of the things that he may or may not regret about his journey, things that he said, things that he did. |
1:51.0 | But now he's a startup coach and he's helping awesome entrepreneurs everywhere. |
1:56.0 | Do things that just make themselves better as entrepreneurs and it's a fantastic deep conversation, wide ranging. |
2:03.0 | So without further ado, sit back, relax here on the exit as I sit down and talk to Eric Marcullier. |
2:22.0 | All right, I am here with Eric Marcullier and he is a startup coach and exit expert from what I can tell on his background. |
2:32.0 | So I'm really excited to sit down and talk to you how you doing Eric. |
2:36.0 | I'm doing great, Steve. It's wonderful to be here today. |
2:39.0 | Yeah, there's a lot to unpack here. We got quite a few successes, a lot of lessons to go through. |
2:46.0 | But before we get into your multiple exits, let's talk about how you got started. |
2:52.0 | What's your background and what got you into business? |
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