Silicon Valley entrepreneur (cofounder@ TrialPay, Yub, Affirm, Point, TXN), investor (General Partner @a16z), husband, father and sarcast (one who is sarcastic)
Part of the challenge is aligning when you want to (or need to!) sell with when somebody wants to buy — rarely do they intersect! But founders, read the below:
1/ Thread: How to sell your company
Companies are (almost always) bought, not sold. This means somebody needs to *want to buy* your company.
Ideally this happens organically. But how do you, as a founder/CEO, expedite this…particularly when you KNOW you’re hitting a wall?