B2B Trade Show Businesses Can Last Decades Due To High Durability
Sam Parr · Joe Rogan Offers Vaccine Expert $100,000 To Debate on His Show (#467) · Jun 20, 2023 · at 45:15
Sam Parr compares the longevity and exit multiples of traditional B2B trade shows to e-commerce and media businesses.
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“One type of business that I've brought up consistently is trade shows. And the reason why is I've noticed a trend where a trade show business can last many, many, many decades. Sometimes there's many examples of them lasting a hundred plus years. And these businesses that are okay, like they're not that fast growing, but they're good. Man, they're consistently selling for 10, sometimes 15 times profit, which is pretty good.”
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