Episodes
Six years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
29 episodes in 2025
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26m Why Waiting Made This Startup Actually Worth Selling
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, host Andrew Gostecki interviews solo founder Samuel, who shares how he built, scaled, and successfully sold his no-code AI audio SaaS, Speaker…
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26m Why Buyers Wanted THIS Design Business
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, host Andrew Gazdecki interviews Jamm co-founders Eddie, David, and Phil Goodwin about building a successful productized design subscription co…
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56m Story behind India's first Guilt Free Cafe | Yummy Bee | Sandeep Jangala | Startup Stories Uncut
In this episode of Startup Stories Uncut, entrepreneur Sandeep Jangala discusses how his background in cricket, civil services, and tech led him to found Yummy Bee, a guilt-free cafe built o…
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21m The Playbook Behind 18 Startup Acquisitions
Serial entrepreneur Stuart Fott joins Acquire.com CEO Andrew Gazdecki to break down his repeatable playbook for building, scaling, and selling 18 vertical SaaS startups through industry cons…
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27m How This Bootstrapped App Got a Fast, Clean Exit
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, Street Tag founder Seun Oshinaike discusses bootstrapping his gamified health platform, pivoting from hardware to software, and navigating a c…
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19m The 48-Hour Rescue That Turned Into a Profitable Acquisition
Main Street CEO Jesse Tinsley joins host Andrew Gazdecki to detail his tactical playbooks for acquiring distressed software companies, executing high-speed turnarounds like Bench, and scalin…
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21m One Simple Habit Made This Startup Easy to Sell
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, Local Comets founder Jordan Richards explains how creating a 200-video SOP library eliminated key-person risk and enabled a smooth acquisition…
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16m From Two Small Projects to Profitable Exits on Acquire.com
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, host Andrew Gazdecki interviews designer and entrepreneur Tom Ulman about revitalizing, monetizing, and successfully exiting two micro-SaaS pr…
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59m Why is lifestyle the next big thing? | Startup Stories Uncut | Episode 1
In this premiere episode of Startup Stories Uncut, host Alvir interviews seasoned entrepreneur Naveen Arun to explore the multi-trillion-dollar wellness economy, the root causes of modern bu…
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32m How Focus Closed SwiftNet in 30 Days
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, SwiftNet founder Nikita Danilov discusses how he leveraged e-commerce marketing principles to build a profitable rural internet service and su…
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16m How a College Shopify App Project Turned Into a Profitable Exit
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, serial entrepreneur Tanmay details how he developed Edify from a college class project into a monetized Shopify application and navigated its …
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20m What It Takes to Turn Complexity Into a Successful Exit
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, GovCon in a Box founder Alex shares how he pivoted a PDF tool into a specialized vertical SaaS for government contractors and executed a seaml…
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15m The Secrets Behind This Bootstrapped AI App Life-changing Exit
In this episode of 'Startup Acquisition Stories', host Andrew Gazdecki interviews founder Itai Elgazar, who bootstrapped, scaled, and sold his full-stack AI platform SuperDev on Acquire.com …
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17m Simple Steps to Get a Bootstrapped AI Startup Acquired
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, host Andrew Gazdecki interviews ChatFi co-founder Umar Khan about engineering persistent conversational memory for AI characters, achieving vi…
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16m Why Buying an Ecommerce Business Was the Best Path
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, entrepreneur Alex Carroll shares how he acquired the e-commerce brand Alpine Rings, scaled it from $300,000 to a $2.4 million run rate through…
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17m 5 Simple Steps To Get a Bootstrapped SaaS Acquired
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, Acquire.com CEO Andrew Gazdecki interviews Rich Yoon, founder of Jet Designs, about scaling a productized design agency, navigating buyer due …
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23m How He Acquired an EdTech SaaS and 10x’d Its Revenue
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, guest Chan Yardini details how he transitioned from corporate SaaS burnout to acquiring EssayGrader on Acquire.com and scaling it into a seven…
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26m Profitable. Focused. Built for Dogs. How This Niche eCommerce Brand Got Successfully Acquired
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, Big Paw Shop founder Matt Breton joins host Andrew Gazdecki to discuss how he bootstrapped a niche pet e-commerce brand alongside his corporat…
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19m Built a Profitable Startup and Got Acquired at Just 18
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, host Andrew Gazdecki interviews 18-year-old Swiss founder Sia Ozdemir about conceiving, growing, and profitably selling his SaaS tool GenPower…
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43m From Side Hustle to Clean Exit in 30 Days
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, host Andrew Gostecki interviews entrepreneur Chris Schwab, who shares how he built, scaled, and executed a clean 30-day exit of his remote vir…
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16m The Lean SaaS Exit: PLG, Profitability, and a Strategic Acquisition
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, host Andrew Gazdecki interviews Trevor Lee, founder of Genius Sheets, exploring how he built a lean financial modeling SaaS, scaled it through…
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33m Zero Funding, One Buyer, and a Clean SaaS Exit
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, host Andrew Gazdecki interviews LeadGen App co-founder Christopher Lear about bootstrapping, operating, and successfully exiting his SaaS busi…
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16m Bootstrapped, Built, Sold: Luka’s Micro-SaaS Exit
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, founder Luka Pekibar discusses how he built Before and After into a $100K ARR micro-SaaS on Wix and executed a ten-day exit on Acquire.com to …
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22m How to Sell Your Startup for a Life-Changing Payout
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, host Andrew Gazdecki interviews composer-turned-entrepreneur Emmett Cooke on how he built, scaled, and successfully sold his digital audio dis…
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19m Are You Selling an Asset or Selling a Job?
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, host Andrew Gazdecki interviews Pluto LMS founder Ian Fourie about bootstrapping an EdTech platform, navigating international acquisition chal…
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16m How Gabby Rosen Flipped a Newsletter for 18x in Under a Year
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, host Andrew Gazdecki interviews entrepreneur Gabby Rosen, who details how she acquired the newsletter Nomad Cloud on Acquire.com, scaled its c…
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22m Kamil Almost Went Broke Growing His AI Startup – An Acquisition Saved It
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, Copycopter founder Kamil joins host Andrew Gazdecki to discuss how building an AI short-form video tool led to depleted personal runway, how h…
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20m How to Prime Your Business For a Seamless Acquisition with Sukhpal Saini
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, host Andrew Gazdecki interviews founder Sukhpal Saini on building, scaling, and successfully exiting his micro-SaaS Reetail on Acquire.com. Sa…
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29m Want to Build an Agency Worth Buying? Spend a Decade Saying Yes
In this episode of Startup Acquisition Stories, Acquire.com CEO Andrew Gazdecki interviews Bobby Domofsky, founder of ForMJ Social, on how he bootstrapped a healthcare marketing side hustle …
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