The Exit - Presented By Flippa

The Eight-Figure Miss: Hard-Won Lessons From Multiple Exits with Danny Davis


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Danny Davis, CEO of Hyperfi, shares hard-won lessons from multiple exits including taking a cannabis tech company public and missing an eight-figure investment in Loom.
Key Topics:
• How a hospital bed insight led to patenting the world's first cannabis cartridge filling system
• Why board control is make-or-break for successful exits (and what happened when he lost it)
• The revenue vs. investment dilemma: when to kill your cash cow for the bigger bet
• Being Loom's first customer, offered to be first investor, and saying no—an eight-figure miss
• Why he only invests in founder-led companies now (even controversial ones like Travis's Uber)
• Building Hyperfi: applying Ben Horowitz's People → Product → Profit formula
• The "N+1 strategy" for risk management every entrepreneur needs
• Why timing is everything: two years makes the difference between too early and too late
Biggest Takeaway: "For every person I talk to that has hindsight, they always had an inkling. The mistakes happen when you sell yourself short or get out too early."
Danny went from 13 years in corporate IT to multiple successful exits by spotting pattern-breaking opportunities in taboo markets. Now he's building Hyperfi, an AI-powered IT procurement platform solving a $1.5 trillion problem.
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Danny Davis is a multi-exit founder, technologist, and hands-on operator known for building companies that push industries forward. From taking Convectium public at a $100M+ valuation to leading W3Box.io’s blockchain and AI-powered membership systems for global brands, his ventures bridge the physical and digital worlds. Holding eight patents across connected packaging and authentication, Danny’s work sits at the intersection of design, code, and commerce. Now founder of HyperFi, an AI-native enterprise IT platform, he leads with precision, purpose, and his guiding motto: “Break to Fix.”
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannydavis12/
Website - https://hyperfi.ai/
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The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/
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