The Big Exit Show

In this short story of The Big Exit Show Emma Tracey of Honeypot explains how they solved the “chicken and the egg problem” and got supply and demand for their marketplace startup. Listen to more stories from Emma in the third episode of The Big Exit Show.

In this short story from The Big Exit Show you hear entrepreneur Emma Tracy who sold her company Honeypot to XING about starting in the tech world without a tech background. If you want to hear the entire story of Emma, you can listen to the third episode of The Big Exit Show. 

In this audio snippet of The Big Exit Show by Peak, Geert-Jan Smits answers what the main points of discussion were while raising money for Flinders from Peak. To listen to the whole story of Geert-Jan, you can visit the first episode of The Big Exit Show. 

In this episode of The Big Exit Show we talk to Bernd Gross who founded IoT-platform Cumulocity in 2010 in Düsseldorf. He sold the company nine years later to tech giant Software AG for an undisclosed amount - but the mathematical wizards of Peak Capital will do an informed valuation of the deal at the end of the episode. You will also learn: 

• How a smaller company can compete with large scale competitors like Azure and AWS
• Why you need to focus as a startup to be credible to end customers
• Why you need a M&A advisor when selling a company.

In The Big Exit Show our hosts Johan van Mil and Remy Gieling talk to tech entrepreneurs about scaling their companies and the lessons and pitfalls of a successful exit.

The Big Exit Show is an initiative by Peak. Peak invests in early-stage SaaS, marketplace, and platform companies ran by kick-ass teams. Want to know more about Peak and the ventures we back? Check out our website or send us a message! Feedback for our podcast or want to be featured on our show? Please reach out at [email protected]. 

In this audio snippet of The Big Exit Show by Peak, entrepreneur Geert-Jan Smits of Flinders explains why he had to sell his house in order to fund inventory. You can listen to the complete story of Geert-Jan in the first episode of The Big Exit Show. 

In this episode of The Big Exit Show we talk to Paul Veugen who founded Usabilla, which was sold to SurveyMonkey and the iOS app of the year Human.co which was acquired by Mapbox. He is currently building a new venture called Detail.co to help creators make better video. Detail.co was funded with over 7 million dollars. In this episode you will learn: 

• Why Paul got kicked-out of his investors office, after he shared he wanted to step down as CEO of Usabilla
• What his experience was living in San Fransisco for a couple of years
• How nobody knew in the company he was working for at the time, he just made a mega-exit
• How Paul managed to secure an exit for Human in a couple of weeks time

In The Big Exit Show our hosts Johan van Mil and Remy Gieling talk to tech entrepreneurs about scaling their companies and the lessons and pitfalls of a successful exit.

The Big Exit Show is an initiative by Peak. Peak invests in early-stage SaaS, marketplace, and platform companies ran by kick-ass teams. Want to know more about Peak and the ventures we back? Check out our website or send us a message! Feedback for our podcast or want to be featured on our show? Please reach out at [email protected]. 

In this episode of The Big Exit Show we talk to Tuomas Toivonen who sold his Finnish neobank Holvi to the Spanish multinational BBVA, only to reacquire it 2021. In this episode you will learn: 

• What it is like to sell a company to a multinational and work as a subsidiary 
• Why the company decided to quit its activities in the UK and focus on other markets
• How Holvi had to let go of some staff to be more cost-effective, but made sure they all found new jobs
• And of course... our estimation for how much Tuomas sold Holvi and for how much he reacquired it

In The Big Exit Show our hosts Johan van Mil and Remy Gieling talk to tech entrepreneurs about scaling their companies and the lessons and pitfalls of a successful exit.

The Big Exit Show is an initiative by Peak. Peak invests in early-stage SaaS, marketplace, and platform companies ran by kick-ass teams. Want to know more about Peak and the ventures we back? Check out our website or send us a message! Feedback for our podcast or want to be featured on our show? Please reach out at [email protected]. 

In this episode of The Big Exit Show we talk to Dr. Gero Decker who sold his Berlin-based software firm for business process automation Signavio to technology giant SAP. In this episode you will learn: 

• How Signavio got big brand companies to sign on, even as a small startup
• The strategy of Signavio to conquer the US
• How to ask for the right price during negotiations
• And of course... the amount of the mega-exit

In The Big Exit Show our hosts Johan van Mil and Remy Gieling talk to tech entrepreneurs about scaling their companies and the lessons and pitfalls of a successful exit.

The Big Exit Show is an initiative by Peak. Peak invests in early-stage SaaS, marketplace, and platform companies ran by kick-ass teams. Want to know more about Peak and the ventures we back? Check out our website or send us a message! Feedback for our podcast or want to be featured on our show? Please reach out at [email protected]. 

In this episode of The Big Exit Show we talk to Arco van Nieuwland who started the accounting software giant Exact in 1984 which he sold many year later. He started another SaaS-accounting tool called Yuki which was sold to Visma last year. In this episode you will learn: 

• What it was like starting and scaling a software company in the 80s
• Why Arco started a new company while still being one of the largest shareholders in Exact
• Why you shouldn't always sell to the highest bidder
• How much he eventually sold Yuki for to Visma...

In The Big Exit Show our hosts Johan van Mil and Remy Gieling talk to tech entrepreneurs about scaling their companies and the lessons and pitfalls of a successful exit.

The Big Exit Show is an initiative by Peak. Peak invests in early-stage SaaS, marketplace, and platform companies ran by kick-ass teams. Want to know more about Peak and the ventures we back? Check out our website or send us a message! Feedback for our podcast or want to be featured on our show? Please reach out at [email protected]. 

In this episode of The Big Exit Show we talk to Thijs Verheul and Sjuul Berden who sold their online marketplace for vintage fashion United Wardrobe to Lithuanian competitor Vinted. In this podcast you will learn:  

• Why the company's bet to conquer France did not pay off
• When Thijs said "we will cruch you" in a conversation with a competitor
• Why a previous exit deal of United Wardrobe got cancelled at the last moment
• The dynamics between multiple founders and how to decide who will be ceo

In The Big Exit Show by Peak our hosts Johan van Mil and Remy Gieling talk to tech entrepreneurs about scaling their companies and the lessons and pitfalls of a successful exit.