Jordan Calderon

9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 14, 2026 by Jordan Calderon · across every show →

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Jul 14, 2026

Disclosure

Calderon hosted a 300-person Bali victory party months before deal actually closed

“In September when I thought we were, you know, days away from closing, I actually ended up renting this massive villa in Bali, because I was in Bali at that time, inviting all my friends, I'm not even kidding you, there's probably like, 300 people at this part…”

Jordan Calderon Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 17:48 From Free Work to a Buyer-Ready Agency Exit

Jul 14, 2026

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Calderon engaged 215 potential buyers to secure 11 LOIs for StratDev

“As a result, I think we spoke to 215 total buyers on an offer. We got 11 LOIs”

Jordan Calderon Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 13:24 From Free Work to a Buyer-Ready Agency Exit

Jul 14, 2026 positive

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Calderon: StratDev Grew ~118% Year-Over-Year Over Five Years

“In the five years of us or me running the business I was able to grow the business about a 118% year over year.”

Jordan Calderon Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 8:29 From Free Work to a Buyer-Ready Agency Exit

Jul 14, 2026

Disclosure

Calderon landed initial agency clients trading free work for case studies

“What I did is I went to business owners, and instead of saying, hey, pay me to go work for you, hey, I'll work for you for free, as long as you do two things. One, write me a video testimonial, and two, we're allowed to use all your work as a case study. And s…”

Jordan Calderon Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 6:20 From Free Work to a Buyer-Ready Agency Exit

Jul 14, 2026

Assertion Supported

Calderon: Bootstrapped, scaled, and sold three businesses by age 27

“I've built Bootstrap, scaled, and sold three businesses by the age of 27 years old, most recently being StratDev.”

Jordan Calderon Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 0:55 From Free Work to a Buyer-Ready Agency Exit

Jul 14, 2026 neutral

Disclosure

Why Calderon rejected higher offers to sell StratDev to HSR Capital

“The buyer actually did not have the most ideal terms if you're looking at it from a price point perspective. I chose the buyer HSR Capital for three reasons.”

Jordan Calderon Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 20:04 From Free Work to a Buyer-Ready Agency Exit

Jul 14, 2026

Insight

Founders must burn hotter during an exit than when building a business

“It is the beginning of that end, and it requires you to actually be burning a lot hotter than probably the rest of your experiences. Maybe there's a little, you know, spikes throughout that entrepreneurial journey to building that business, but I promise that,…”

Jordan Calderon Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 25:48 From Free Work to a Buyer-Ready Agency Exit

Jul 14, 2026

What-if

Avoiding past M&A mistakes saved Calderon millions on the StratDev sale

“If I were to have made the same mistakes that I did on, for example, the first acquisition, I would have came out probably, you know, millions of dollars with a lesser outcome than I did with this one.”

Jordan Calderon Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 26:41 From Free Work to a Buyer-Ready Agency Exit

Jul 14, 2026 positive

Insight

Quality M&A counsel can alter a founder's payout by seven figures

“The difference of just knowing what to do or having the right cancel or not is, Literally in, in some cases you know, seven plus figures of a difference of, you know, what the outcome is for you as a founder.”

Jordan Calderon Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 26:51 From Free Work to a Buyer-Ready Agency Exit

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