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Episode 169

How to Grow from $0 to $9M, Exit & then Do it all Again with Seth Waite

This week on The Exit: Seth’s entrepreneurial career started very early. By the age of 20 he had already founded and sold his first digital company, a marketplace for plugins and templates for blogs. After leaving law school, Seth started and exited numerous other companies in content and marketing niches, exiting successfully a number of times, after growing his companies to stellar revenues. Tune in to learn about his impressive feat of achieving a 95% year-over-year growth for six consecutive years in one of his businesses, as well as his moving company from $0 to $9M. Explore the insights into the numerous exits he has experienced, gain valuable perspectives on pivoting and adapting for survival, and unpack the intricacies of knowing when to exit and how to negotiate the most favorable deals.

Seth Waite is currently a Partner and the Chief Revenue Officer at Schaefer, which is a revenue generation firm helping companies grow faster. Seth is a long time serial entrepreneur who has gone through and facilitated several successful exits and is also an exit coach helping companies learn exactly how to get their ideal business exit. He also served as CMO, then Chief Growth Officer, before focusing on the role of Chief Strategy Officer at RevUnit. Seth managed to double their growth year-over-year to reach a ranking of 584 out of 5,000 on Inc’s 5000 Fastest Growing Privately-Held Companies in America.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sethwaite

Website: schaefer.co  

Website: https://sethwaite.com/

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