A founder walks through selling an Amazon business and the unexpected people he met along the way: a major New York real-estate developer, a Fortune 100 CEO, and a private-equity firm CEO with pro basketball players as investors. The connections matter more than the deal.
I'm selling one of my businesses, and along the way of selling, I've met so many cool people. Like, one of them was like a big real estate developer in New York, super cool person. The next one was like a CEO of a really big company, probably Fortune 100 type of company. And then just recently, I got off the phone of like, he's also a CEO of a big company, and he also owns like a private equity firm with a lot of basketball players. And the whole process of this has been truly like eye-opening. That even if I don't sell my actual company, like, it's such a cool experience. Like, knowing these people, having them as contacts now, being able to kind of like leverage these relationships, it's really unmatched.
