Danilov: Selling founders should hand buyers a 10x business scaling plan
Nikita Danilov · How Focus Closed SwiftNet in 30 Days · Oct 7, 2025 · at 26:26
SwiftNet founder Nikita Danilov shares acquisition advice for founders preparing to sell their companies.
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“What is your plan that you could share with the buyer? I'm passing this on to you. Do this edited how you need, but if you do this, you will 10 X it. So have that plan. Or yeah, the work of action that you can share with the buyer, because that will make them feel way more confident with the acquisition acquisition, because they're like, okay, well, I know what to do to get my money back and more, obviously, because why are buyers buying a business is to scale it and to make more money, obviously.”
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