Brief speaker excerpt advising that companies seeking a "big exit" must be large, profitable, and fast-growing. The speaker argues you generally need at least two of these attributes (size, profitability, rapid growth) and ideally all three to secure a major exit; unprofitability may be acceptable only if the company is very large and growing quickly.
Should you prioritize growing profitably or quickly if you want to have a big exit? Should you prioritize growing profitably or quickly? I think the outcome you need is you need to be big and profitable and having grown quick and be a fast growing brand to get a big exit. Obviously the different versions of that. But I think you can be unprofitable if you're very big and growing quick, but you can't be not growing quick and be big and unprofitable, if that makes sense. So you need at least two of them at all times. So profitable, growing very big, you need at least two. Ideally three is where you get the big exit from.
