Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast
1) From Two Small Projects to Profitable Exits on Acquire.com
Running small projects may not be glamorous. But for Thomas Ulman, it was the smartest way to scale and sell. His founder story shows how improving what already works can lead to clean, profitable exi...Show More
2) How Focus Closed SwiftNet in 30 Days
Running two startups sounds ambitious. But for Nikita Danilov, it became a signal to focus. His startup exit story shows why knowing when to sell and finding the right buyer matters most.He built Swif...Show More
3) How a College Shopify App Project Turned Into a Profitable Exit
Tanmay Kejriwal didnât plan to build a company.What started as a class project at TCU, a simple Shopify script to fix order issues, grew into Editify, a Shopify app with hundreds of users and steady r...Show More
4) What It Takes to Turn Complexity Into a Successful Exit
Ion-Alexandru Secara didnât chase flashy markets.He built GovCon in a Box to help small contractors cut through government red tape, simplify proposals, and win more deals. Thousands of paying custome...Show More
5) The Secrets Behind This Bootstrapped AI App Life-changing Exit
Itay Elgazar didnât wait years to find his exit. He launched Superdev in early 2025, an AI tool that let developers build full-stack apps in minutes. Within months, it went viral, gained hundreds of p...Show More
6) Bootstrapped, Viral Growth, and a 2-Week Exit
Said Korkmax and Esra Sinmaz built Appify Mobile, lean and bootstrapped. Without ad spend, they focused on App Store Optimization (ASO) to grow AI apps that caught fire in crowded app stores.Small tes...Show More
7) Scaling AI Content to $1M ARR and a Successful Exit
Teemu Raitaluoto had sold before.His first exit on Acquire.com was small, but it taught him exactly what slows buyers down. Two years later, with AIContentfy, he applied those lessons from day one â s...Show More
8) Simple Steps to Get a Bootstrapped AI Startup Acquired
Umar Khan didnât plan to sell. Bootstrapped and lean, his AI side project ChatFAI went viral: 1M users in a year and MRR jumping from $500 to $2,000 in two months. Its edge? Long-term memory that kept...Show More
9) Why Selling a Profitable Startup Was The Best Move
JJ Englert didnât start in SEO. He built Trade Backlinks, a profitable SEO marketplace for buying and selling backlinks safely and transparently.He launched it lean, listened to user feedback, and kep...Show More
10) Why Buying an Ecommerce Business Was the Best Path
Alex Carroll didnât build Alpine Rings. He acquired it and scaled it to a $2.4M run rate.Once inside, he fixed what mattered: product pages, offer structure, and one $300 upgrade that drove 40% more r...Show More