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Leonard: ActiveDEMAND would absolutely accept a $10M acquisition offer

Sean Leonard · 1418 $2.4M ARR Marketing Automation Company CEO Would Sell for $10M Today · Jun 12, 2019 · at 16:09

Sean Leonard, CEO of bootstrapped SaaS ActiveDEMAND, responds to Nathan Latka asking if he would sell the company for $10 million.

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“Yeah, the reality is for ten million dollars, we would absolutely sell.”

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