Mark Osborne explains why exit planning for scale-up companies isn't really about retirement. It's about preparing your business for acquisition or ownership transfer to maximize its value now and later, not just cashing out at the end.
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Sure. So I'd like to also add in another aspect of the exiting. Yeah. I, I tend to use the term transitioning, and the reason I do that is because a lot of times scale-ups are preparing for acquisition or to transition out. Yeah. It's not that they're retirement age. It's not that, you know, they've gotten to that seasoned point. It's that their intention was never to build a lifelong business. They were building a business Right. And so exit planning is more than just about retirement. It's about understanding the business as its own entity and getting the most value out of it today, tomorrow, and in the future.