Seller Motive: Why sell a successful business? #acquire #business #acquisition

So if we see a 2x, that's rewarded. If we see a 5x, that's punitive, but it's, it's not a deal breaker, like early. We want to kind of keep that aperture open so that we don't choke off all the deals that are. That are feasible. We obviously don't want to look at all the noise if the business is already ripping. Like, that's what we do. So. And then it's also. That raises some flags from a seller motive, too. It's like, why do you sell the thing that's just shredding, you know? And there are scenarios where it does make sense, but that's something that you want to lean into.