Founder Breakthroughs

Lessons from a 6 Exit Founder – with Mac Lackey of Exit DNA

Jeff Durso Season 1 Episode 35

Starting and building companies is an amazing rollercoaster of ups and downs – and for many founders, achieving a successful exit at the end of the process is the ultimate goal.

I’ve been fortunate enough to experience 2 major exits in my founder career – and I learned a ton from both of them. Today’s guest, Mac Lackey – has gone through a total of 6 major exits in his startup career.

Starting out in the midst of the first web explosion of the mid-90’s, Mac quickly built and sold his first company – and has then learned how to capitalize on opportunity after opportunity since.

I had a fascinating conversation with Mac about the ups and down, the huge takeaways – how he improved his craft with each exit. And – how we all can learn from his experiences to drive something he called optionality into our own startup experience.

I hope you get as many gems out of our conversation as I did!

Links:

Exit DNA: https://exitdna.com/
Book: https://exitdna.com/book/