Jay Myers

Co-Founder, Bold Commerce · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jay Myers is an entrepreneur known for co-founding Bold Commerce, an e-commerce checkout and application provider, and launching Kickbooster. Tape materials also conflate Jay B. Myers, who founded audiovisual integrator Interactive Solutions and authored business books including Keep Swinging.

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2 assertions · 2 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jay argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Myers: Interactive Solutions reached $25M in sales around 2011

“I guess it was a, 2011, we went from whatever those millions of dollars to twenty-five million in sales, and then we really started getting the calls, and I still blew them off.”

Jay Myers Apr 16, 2021 ▶ 5:29 The Audit That Saved Me Hundreds of Thousands When I Sold

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Jay Myers on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said7 Episodes1

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Insight

Myers: Founders Face a Difficult Grieving Process After Selling

“You know what, Sean, there's a grieving process, and I don't care who out there, if you care about your business, and it's your baby, boy, it's tough, but you know, you gotta figure out a way to deal with it.”

Jay Myers Apr 16, 2021 ▶ 19:55 The Audit That Saved Me Hundreds of Thousands When I Sold

Insight

Myers: Sell when the business is ready, not when founders are

“It's not when you're ready, but when the business is ready.”

Jay Myers Apr 16, 2021 ▶ 29:59 The Audit That Saved Me Hundreds of Thousands When I Sold

Disclosure

Myers: Audited financials shrunk Interactive Solutions' sale process to five months

“In our case, we did that, and what could have been a 12 or 18 month process was shrunk down to whatever, four or five months.”

Jay Myers Apr 16, 2021 ▶ 9:15 The Audit That Saved Me Hundreds of Thousands When I Sold

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Myers: Personal Goodwill Allocation Saved Hundreds of Thousands in Taxes

“In our case, it saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes because the tax rate was that much different. And I don't remember the exact percentages off the top of my head, but they were significant.”

Jay Myers Apr 16, 2021 ▶ 28:02 The Audit That Saved Me Hundreds of Thousands When I Sold

Assertion Supported

Myers: Interactive Solutions reached $25M in sales around 2011

“I guess it was a, 2011, we went from whatever those millions of dollars to twenty-five million in sales, and then we really started getting the calls, and I still blew them off.”

Jay Myers Apr 16, 2021 ▶ 5:29 The Audit That Saved Me Hundreds of Thousands When I Sold

Disclosure

Jay Myers: Interactive Solutions grew roughly 1,500% over five years

“I think we grew like 1500 and something percent in a five year period of time”

Jay Myers Apr 16, 2021 ▶ 12:27 The Audit That Saved Me Hundreds of Thousands When I Sold

Disclosure

Myers: Interactive Solutions acquirer made initial offer without price guidance

“In terms of the money, I mean, we never really talked about money until they made their offer. I mean, I never said I need, you know, it gave them a range or anything like that. They just made the offer, and, you know, I contemplated it, then ended up counteri…”

Jay Myers Apr 16, 2021 ▶ 25:41 The Audit That Saved Me Hundreds of Thousands When I Sold

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
The Audit That Saved Me Hundreds of Thousands When I Sold	Apr 16, 2021	22m

Jay Myers

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