Andrew: Hello, everyone, my name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview tech-entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And one of the things that we celebrate in the tech-world is the exit, you know, frankly if an entrepreneur e-mails me and says, “Hey, Andrew, I sold my business. I want to be on Mixergy.”
I almost always will say yes if they’re in the tech-space. And I think partially it’s the wrong way to think about business, how fast can you sell. And the truth is, it’s how great of a company can you build, how much impact can you have on the world, how much of a legacy can you leave behind. Those things are so much more valuable than the exit.
But frankly, partially I look at the exit because it tells me, “Hey, the guy crossed the finish line. Let’s talk about how he did it.” And partially because I feel like we’ve got a complete story, so we tell...