From Angel To Exit · 2026-07-29 · 42 min
Many founder-CEOs assume that adding more products, customers, and revenue streams automatically increases business value. According to serial entrepreneur Yarin Gaon, the opposite is often true. In this episode of From Angel to Exit , Bruce Eckfeldt sits down with Yarin - founder of Fractional Partners, former Entrepreneur-in-Residence for a venture capital firm, and mentor to more than 400 founders - to explore what actually creates enterprise value before an exit. Yarin shares his entrepreneurial journey, beginning with building software businesses as a teenager before launching Israel's largest military e-commerce platform, which he later sold. Reflecting on that experience, he identifies two costly mistakes that reduced his company's valuation: developing proprietary internal systems that buyers didn't want to inherit and building a company that depended too heavily on him instead of a capable leadership team. The discussion expands into lessons learned from helping struggling venture-backed companies.
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