8 Figures

Annex Business Media grew through more than 25 acquisitions to 155 full-time employees. Then the founders sold to its own team.

The founders of edtech ClassTag managed to grow the business to 7 figures in annual revenue and 5 million users, then sold to SchoolStatus.

Co-founder Sharon Gillenwater spent 14 years growing her executive database. She shared how the sale happened — and how much money she actually walked away with.

An investor connected the founder of calendar app Cron with productivity platform Notion, leading to a sale and integration of their complementary products.

“Everything we did was more about effort than money,” WhiskerCloud founder Adam Greenbaum said. He shared how he grew the agency to 2,000+ clients before selling.

His hospitalization was the wake-up call he needed, but it took Streamline Marketing’s founder more than a year to find the right buyer.

ReFirm Labs co-founder Terry Dunlap shares his story — from getting arrested for hacking at 17 to selling his IoT security company to Microsoft.

“We had a good idea, and we had a team that had the right connections in an industry where relationships drive pretty much everything,” said Charlie Lieu, AirTerra’s co-founder.