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New York tech investor and serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan explains when to sell your company
Kevin Ryan has had a long and storied career as a pivotal force of New York City tech. He's the founder and CEO of investment firm AlleyCorp, which has
He helped build ad tech company DoubleClick as president and CEO in the 1990s and early 2000s, and Google later bought it for $3.1 billion in 2007, transforming the online advertising industry. But given his background with DoubleClick and MongoDB, I asked him how company founders should decide when and whether to take an acquisition offer, versus when they should hold on and try to go public. He added that lot of founders don’t think clearly when it comes to personal wealth from an acquisition, chasing ever-bigger numbers instead of settling for a life-changing amount of money.
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