Exits with Integrity: Wendy Diamond on Building Businesses That Last

The Exit - Presented By Flippa

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5.0 • 420 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 30 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, Wendy Diamond, serial entrepreneur, investor, and founder of Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization (WEDO), shares her extraordinary journey of weaving profit with purpose. Wendy’s entrepreneurial spark began early, trading designer surplus in Turkey and Russia before moving to New York. There, volunteering for the homeless shifted her focus toward impact, leading to celebrity-backed cookbooks that raised millions. Her love for animals sparked Animal Fair Media, where she pioneered “Yappy Hour” events and primetime pet programming, spotlighting adoption at a time when millions of animals were being euthanized annually. A volunteer trip to Honduras in 2013 was another turning point. Witnessing the success of microloans for women entrepreneurs inspired her to found Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, now celebrated in 100 countries. The initiative brings together governments, investors, and business leaders to empower women globally. As an investor, Wendy champions integrity-driven founders. She backed Basepaws (the “23andMe for pets”), which exited to Zoetis, while also experiencing failures that underscored her belief that “it’s always about the people.” Her advice: build strong teams, embrace collaboration, and enjoy the journey. Today, through joinwedo.org, Wendy is helping a million women and girls gain AI and entrepreneurship skills—continuing her mission to create change from the ground up. -- Wendy Diamond is an internationally renowned social entrepreneur, impact investor, humanitarian, bestselling author, and media personality dedicated to using innovation and disruptive technologies for positive global impact. She is the Founder and CEO of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization (WEDO)/#ChooseWOMEN, a movement with chapters in 144 countries and 112 universities focused on empowering women and alleviating poverty. As CEO of LDP Ventures, she invests in impactful companies and funds while serving on boards that advance sustainability, women’s leadership, and animal welfare. A keynote speaker at the UN, Harvard, and the World Economic Forum, her work has been featured by Oprah, NBC, Bloomberg, The New York Times, and Forbes. Through her ventures and ten books, Wendy continues to champion innovation, entrepreneurship, and the underdog worldwide. Websites: https://www.joinwedo.org/ - www.wendydiamond.com Wendy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendydiamond/ -- 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

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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.
0:06.1	If you are an operator right now running a business and you're thinking about exiting,
0:10.8	you are going to want to get a free online business valuation on the exit landing page.
0:16.7	Without a doubt, it is the smartest thing you can do to start a process and get yourself organized.
0:23.0	So you're going to go to the URL, flippa.com, slash exit, to check out more, and let's jump into
0:28.1	the interview.
0:29.2	Below and welcome to the exit presented by Flipup, the number one platform to buy and sell online
0:34.2	businesses.
0:35.2	Flipa manages over a billion in deal value annually and combines
0:39.4	expert buy and sell side advisory with its market leading valuation tool, deal room,
0:43.9	off market offering, market insights, an AI-based deal-by-deal matching engine. Now for the exit.
0:50.9	The exit is a 30-minute podcast featuring awesome entrepreneurs who have been there and they
0:54.8	have done it. The exit talks to operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes.
1:00.3	You learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits. It's a world
1:05.1	occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. On this episode of the exit, I sit down with
1:10.3	Wendy Diamond.
1:11.6	She has a fantastic story of social entrepreneurship and investing,
1:15.8	and a lot of the details of this conversation are around people.
1:20.1	Knowing on both sides of the equation,
1:22.9	whether you're an entrepreneur or an investor,
1:25.2	finding the right people to work with is a really great theme
1:29.0	of this episode. Because when you're making big investments, you have to make sure that the
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