Buy the Platform, Build the Exit — Ebook (EPUB)

The exit is built long before the sale.

Buying the first company gives you a platform. Turning several businesses into one company is the work that follows.

For CEOs and the sponsors who back them, Bill Canady lays out the decisions that connect the original thesis to the eventual sale. The order matters: choose the ground, plant the platform, build the add-on engine, make the businesses one, and prove what the next owner is buying.

Learn to:

• Write a thesis that tells you what to buy—and what to refuse.
• Set a price and an operating plan that work without a higher exit multiple.
• Build the capacity to receive an acquisition before closing the next one.
• Make the numbers, purchasing, customers and leadership operate as one company.
• Keep the evidence of what every add-on promised and what it delivered.

An invented platform runs through the book from its first market idea to its sale. Its companies, people and numbers are teaching illustrations, and the arithmetic is worked in the open, including the choices that failed.

Build a company the next owner can run, with a record the next buyer can trust.

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