Gethers: Left Mercado Partners to focus full-time on selling EarlyAdmit
Devon Gathers · Startup Acquisition Stories with Devon Gethers, Founder of EarlyAdmit · Oct 3, 2023 · at 24:06
Devon Gethers, founder of admissions consulting platform EarlyAdmit, discusses the commitment required during an acquisition process.
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“And in fact, I actually left my investment firm to focus 100% on the sale of this business. I left Mercado Partners to go do that.”
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