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Surviving a battle with an investor, Scot Chisholm CEO Highland & Haskill Creek -Startup CEO SHOW

10 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Excerpt from a YouTube interview in which Scot Chisholm (CEO of Highland & Haskill Creek) recounts a difficult company transition marked by conflict with a Series C investor. The investor wanted to remove the CEO and management team; after a protracted two-year dispute the company bought out that investor despite being at 'tens of millions' in scale.

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A Series C investor.

Two years.

Tens of millions (revenue/scale implied by speaker).

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For us. You know, we. We definitely got slapped in the face a few times on that transition, and it took a lot longer than we hoped. And our series C investor that I was alluding to before, who, who had invested in the company on the thesis that we could move up market, got really impatient and actually ended up wanting to boot me out of the company and push out the rest of the management team. Come on. We had a nasty conflict for two years, and we ended up buying them out, which was kind of unheard of. And we were at scale. I mean, we were tens of millions. Like, it was. It was not a small company at that point.