Mark Osborne explains why early-stage founders need an exit strategy before raising money. Most assume an IPO is inevitable, but without a clear plan for how investors get paid back, raising capital becomes risky. He helps entrepreneurs build businesses designed to be sold.
working with early businesses and giving it and trying to give them the exit strategy, right? So I do work at, you know, I'm a huge on exit strategies just because, um, people are not. So I try to fill in that gap, right? Like that's the whole mission of the company, how to create a sellable asset, um, to create legacy wealth, right, for others. So when I work with startups, even though they're venture funded, um, you'll be surprised at the number of those going for VC funding, they don't have an exit strategy. And that's when you have to have an exit strategy because if you're asking people for money, That's right. You need to have an exit strategy. Like, there is no way going around that one, and it's not gonna be an IPO. You have no idea how many people want to go for an IPO. It's great, I love it, it's fantastic.
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