Andrew GazdeckiSerial Entrepreneur Driving Startup Acquisitions

The Difference Between a Good Exit and a Mistake

14 Aug 2026 · 0 min

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Andrew Gazdecki explains how founders botch acquisitions by repeating common mistakes. His early errors could have cost him millions, but the right advice swung his exit outcome by seven figures. Getting counsel matters more than most founders realize.

it's really easy to go the wrong direction or make a mistake throughout that entire process. Again, I have made a ton of mistakes. If I were to have made the same mistakes as I did on, for example, the first acquisition, I would have came out probably, you know, millions of dollars with a lesser outcome than I did with this one. And so the difference of just knowing what to do or having the right counsel or not is literally in some cases, you know, 7+ figures of a difference of, you know, what the outcome is for you as a founder. And so