Sold His Business For $40M+. Started With This - Adam

Adam Schwartz discusses how he built his business from the ground up, eventually selling it for over $40 million.

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Adam Schwartz discusses how he built his business from the ground up, eventually selling it for over $40 million. He shares insights into the entrepreneurial journey and the strategies that led to a successful exit.

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Everybody's going to build their business in a different way and there is no exact playbook. And so while it is important to study the masters and to know all of the frameworks, I think that you have to build with some amount of intuition and you can trust that. And that's okay. Eventually, you're going to have to trust yourself to go after it and to make the right decision. [Music]

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