The Brutal Truth About Negotiating A Startup Exit

追加: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]What's the question that a founder should ask themselves before they ever sit down at the negotiation table?

[00:00:04]>> how you negotiate is very, very personalized. I've only ever really negotiated from a position of leverage in my acquisition because I had another acquirer, and those two acquirers were in huge competition with each other, right? I guess in that framework, I actually think I could have done better.

[00:00:22]I think I could have pushed harder. I don't know what I would have done differently, but I didn't have the personal leverage in that I was completely broke. So, they're both offering me life-changing amounts of