Matt Paulson turned down a major acquisition offer from one of MarketBeat's biggest advertisers. He wants to stay independent, avoid a corporate boss, and keep running the business until he dies. Paulson says founder burnout comes from the choices you make building the company.
We've had one serious offer from one of our largest advertisers. It's like, hey, you should keep being MarketBeat, but you should do it under our umbrella. And I thought pretty hard about that. And I ultimately said, nah, I don't want to do that. Like, I like what I'm doing. Yeah. Like, I don't want a boss. I don't want to be part of some bigger company where I've got to fly out to the coast every month for meetings and just like no interest in that.
Do you think you'd ever sell or do you want to do this for the next 20 or so years?
No, I will run this business until the day that I'm dead. I don't want to do anything else. I love this business. I love the people that work there, uh, makes great money. I'm not bored of it at all. There's always something fun and new to do. Plenty of flexibility with it. Like, it is, it's my baby and will be until—
That's awesome. Because some people, you know, they get so burned out and they just like run themselves into the ground and then they feel like they have to sell.
If it's your business and you built it, you get burned out from it, it's kind of like your fault that you built a business that burned you out.
