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Mike Cyger: From Fortune 500 to Self-Employment - A Serial Entrepreneur's Journey | Saw.com
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He sold his company, bought it back, then sold it again.
Michael Cyger left a Fortune 500 job, grew a business past a million subscribers, sold it, bought it back, and sold it a second time. The full story of an unusual exit.
In this video
Choose a chapter to jump ahead- 00:00Intro
- 05:00Cold calling from a phone book at 21 and landing a $2.3M Amazon order
- 13:00Why the entrepreneur is the number one reason businesses fail to scale and how to fix it
- 22:00The deal that fell apart in the 11th hour and what it actually cost
- 33:00How the global financial crisis killed the earnout he had earned
- 44:00Buying back his own business for pennies on the dollar
- 54:00How Domain Sherpa started and why the industry would not talk to him at first
- 01:04:00Selling DN Academy to GoDaddy and what he's building now with AI
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