Olsher: Liquor.com hired an investment bank to solicit acquisition offers
Steve Olsher · 720: How Wealthy People Put On a Conference · Jul 14, 2017 · at 1:54
Steve Olsher, founder and chairman of Liquor.com, shares the company's M&A process and potential sale with Nathan Latka.
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“We ended up bringing in an investment banking group to help us try to solicit offers and we're still actually in that process right now.”
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