Hello and welcome to the exit presented by Flip I'm your co-host Steve McGarry and this

is a 30 minute podcast featuring amazing entrepreneurs who have been there and they have done it.

They have exited businesses, they have bought businesses and they talk about the tricks

and the tips that they have learned while operating those businesses and before we dive into

today's episode with Jeff Weiner an amazing entrepreneur definitely check out my previous

interview with Mark Andre the co-founder of Vital Doll or there's some incredible content in

there about scaling up content businesses and definitely be sure to check that out wherever

you're listening on your device wherever you're listening on Spotify iTunes or SoundCloud it is

worth the listen so on this special episode I sit down with Jeff Weiner to go over some of the

really powerful things post acquisition now this is a topic that a lot of people don't talk about

and after you sell a business that you've been building for let's say 10 years eight years six

years five years whatever it may be there is a short period of time some long periods of time

for some people where there's a layer of depression or a layer of lack of meaning that comes into

the picture you've been building something for a very long time and when you sell it it goes off

into someone else's hands and your baby quote unquote is passed over to a different parent a lot

of people struggle with this I did myself many people that I know that have sold a very large

scale businesses run into this because it takes a long time to build businesses up so this is a

very special episode in terms of the mindset post acquisition and Jeff Weiner has founded multiple

companies it's a real estate investor best selling author and just overall really nice guy and it

was fun to sit down and talk to him about his walks on the beach that are literally like a piphany

after a piphany him walking on the beaches which is a really a great way of filtering things through

your mind and sorting things out on your own so without further ado let's jump into my interview

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