The Exchanges

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85

Q kind of fun to watch because you'll meet, you know, founders of public companies. You'll meet heads of large private equity firms, individual, everybody in between. I guess, um, now, now I'm kind of curious in terms of, you know, you, you go live and acquire.com. You have all these buyers interested in, in both these businesses. How did you figure out who the right buyer was for these businesses?

A Yeah, for SwimGen, I felt quite strongly about making sure the right person was taking it on, and so the private equity firms, family offices, the more businessy folks, I was shying away from a little bit. In the end, I did sell it to sort of like passionate, semi-retired dev who would be handling it all themselves, just, just like myself, which was awesome to see, and then, yeah, and his, his wife, Helping as well. So it kind of just went from, you know, one passionate couple to another, which I was really, really happy to see. On the Zendesk side of things, I didn't feel as passionately that it had to be, you know, passionate solo dev. And so that one went to like a group of investors that are just scooping up a bunch of smaller, smaller apps and things like that. Yeah, it was, it was really interesting though, to see the different perspectives too, as far as Especially in the due diligence, like what financials they want and everything, or it's the, you know, the passionate solo dev versus the investment group.

AI assessment note: “for SwimGen, I felt quite strongly about making sure the right person was taking it on”

Answered produced feed D 4 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.55

Q So what made you, so you, you, you got the product market fit. The businesses are profitable. They're, they're doing really well by the, the looks of them. What made you want to sell both of these, these businesses?

A Yeah, so SwimGen was first. With the new climbing gym and everything, I was pretty busy, and since it's up to my wife and I to do the customer support on SwimGen, sometimes it'd go days at a time where I didn't get back to people, and you know, I was pretty personally invested in SwimGen and the help that it was providing to pools, so there were some days where I felt like I was kind of letting the customers down, um, and so I wanted to find someone that, you know, could do right by the customers, give them the support that they deserve, um, and then just sort of take a bit of a, a burden off of, of my shoulder so I could focus on, on other things. So that was sort of the motivation for Swimgen to sell it.

AI assessment note: “With the new climbing gym and everything, I was pretty busy”

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