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The GRAXETEER: Founders on growing, raising, acquiring and exiting

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Every business owner reaches a point where growth, cash, ambition or timing forces a decision: push on, raise money, buy another business, or sell up. Most founders make that call once or twice in a lifetime, usually with no one to compare notes with.

The GRAXETEER sits down with owners who've done it — grown a business past the founder, raised finance to fund the next stage, acquired a competitor, or sold and walked away. They talk honestly about what actually happened: the calls that paid off, the ones that didn't, and what they'd do differently.

Hosted by Paul Freudenberg, Fractional COO

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  • Updated January 11

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  • January 11 · 1 min

    The Graxeteer Introduction

    Every day, deals are shaping the UK's owner-managed businesses — raises being negotiated, competitors being acquired, exits being planned. Most of it never gets talked about publicly, and the coverage that does exist is usually written for advisors, after the fact, once the story's been smoothed over. The Graxeteer sits somewhere else. This is a show about the deals themselves — the growth, the raises, the acquisitions, and the exits that shape owner-managed businesses — told by the people who actually lived through them. This introduction episode sets out what the show covers and who it's for: owners weighing whether to raise, whether to buy, or whether it's time to sell.