or hyphens, wtf. I am using Australian english6:34 PMMost companies older than seven years are fortunate simply to survive. Very few scale. Even fewer exit well. Exit is not an event. It is the final exam of how the company was built. Companies that command premium valuations are Built to EXIT: deliberately constructed to be predictable, transferable, and independent of the founder. Buyers don't pay for potential. They pay for reliability.

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