Atwood: BuzzBuilder targets 5-year exit rather than early $4M buyout
Jake Atwood · 1086 Sales outreach tool hits $1.2m ARR, would you sell for $4m? No! · Jul 15, 2018 · at 15:03
Jake Atwood explains to Nathan Latka why he turned down an immediate $4 million acquisition offer for BuzzBuilder.
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“We do have a plan to grow this up, explode it, and then in five years have an exit strategy, or potentially sooner if we get someone that comes along that gives us a really, really good price.”
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