Season 9 | Ep3 Matt Fox achieved a life-changing exit and walked away in 90 days!

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Matt Fox achieved a life-changing exit and walked away in 90 days! Matt Fox was 72 hours from a multi-seven-figure exit when COVID killed the deal. What followed: a complete breakdown, 2 years of therapy, and a total rebuild. But he did it differently the second time. Cut from 30 stressed employees to 10 people he loved. Stripped costs. Turned it into a cash machine. By 40, he'd cleared his mortgage and bought Spanish properties with cash. Then, in November 2024, he sold the business and walked away in 3 months. In this episode: Why scaling to 30 people nearly destroyed him The "cash cow" strategy that made him wealthy before the exit How to build a team that doesn't need you What selling a business actually feels like (the bit nobody warns you about) Why 80% of recruitment founders get exits wrong This isn't your typical scale-and-sell story. This is what it really takes to lose everything, rebuild on your terms, and exit with your sanity intact. For recruitment founders running 5-30 person agencies, wondering what happens next.

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• Season 9 | Ep33 Greg Fischer: $4.2M Revenue, $1.4M Net - Then He Left With Nothing but a Handshake72 / 100
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