Top Online Business Brokerages Have Eclipsed $500M in Cumulative Sales
Kyle Kodawiski · They Put In $0 Salary and Still Own a Third of Every Fund · Apr 2, 2024 · at 23:10
Kyle Kodawiski, operations manager at Web Street, discusses the maturation and aggregate transaction volume of online business M&A brokerages.
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“Over the life of those brokerages, I know a few stats where they've done over half of half a billion dollars in sales and businesses brokered.”
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