Selling an automated business at the usual three-to-five-times multiple makes no financial sense: wait three years, earn the same money, and still own the company.

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• Selling a $100,000 enterprise deal takes the same process as selling a million-dollar one. JAJen Abel23 Aug 2026
• Over the long term a stock is hard put to earn a much better return than the business underneath it earns CMCharlie Mungerc. 1994
• When selling a business, one should never agree to an earn out and should always get it in cash. PLPieter Levels18 Oct 2026
• Before you raise money, ask what happens if you succeed - whether you will still want this company in ten or thirty years. PCPatrick Collison31 Jul 2026
• Every founder on standard documents has already signed a charter obliging them to sell their company to the buyer they would least want to have it. EREric Ries10 May 2026

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