Acquiring Minds

60% Concentration That Killed an Exit

Monday · 1 hr 49 min · 105.5 MB
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Raj Mahajan bought a salon software business, tripled it to $11M ARR. Then his biggest customer launched a competitor.

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Topics in Raj’s interview:

  • Wanting to move “from coach to quarterback”
  • Buying a niche point-of-sale software company
  • Converting to cloud-based SaaS
  • Growing recurring revenue from $4 to $11 million
  • Establishing a headquarters for the remote company
  • A failed exit to private equity
  • His biggest customer stealing his software
  • Emotional turmoil of Covid + lawsuit
  • Choosing to protect his team
  • Lessons learned from good and bad years

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Edited by Anton Rohozov and produced by Pam Cameron