2 Commas: The $multi-million exit show with Josh Comrie
by Josh Comrie
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About this podcast
Welcome to 2 Commas: The $multi-million exit show
I've spent over two decades helping founders scale their businesses and achieve successful, multimillion-dollar exits. I've also achieved this myself on multiple occasions. With my experience as an entrepreneur, advisor, and investor, I’ve had the privilege of guiding companies through the highs and lows of business growth and exit strategies.
Each episode will bring you the previously untold stories of entrepreneurs who have successfully scaled and exited their businesses for seven-figure (2 comma's) plus returns. You’ll hear more about the journeys, challenges, and pivotal moments that led to these transformative exits. My goal is to inform and inspire founders who are looking to scale their ventures to seven, eight or nine figures and beyond.
Follow me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joshcomrie
Download my e-book, "The Exit Factor" and sign up to receive the Business Growth Journal weekly: https://www.joshcomrie.com/the-exit-factor
Episodes
The newest 20 of 98 episodes
- NZ's consumer debt Ponzi scheme! And the solution? | Sasha Lockley | 2 Commas Podcast with Josh Comrie · 1 h 9 min · Season 5Most finance companies live or die on keeping you. Sasha Lockley built one that wants you gone as fast as possible. She’s a trained classical singer turned forensic accountant…
- You're leaving 50% revenue growth on the table | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie · 25 min · Season 5 Episode 32A few years ago I bought a new website from a stranger. My own IT company could have built it. They just never told me they did. That small story is the whole problem in…
- 26 years of Huffer, and what came next | Steve Dunstan | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie · 1 h 22 min · Season 5 Episode 31$20 and a fax machine. That's what Steve Dunstan started Huffer with. Twenty-six years later, he'd built one of New Zealand's most recognised streetwear brands, scaled it to…
- An illegal fence, an angry horse, and a billion-dollar company | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie · 35 min · Season 5 Episode 30In 1937 a horse kept scratching its backside on a farmer's brand new car. That horse accidentally started a company now closing in on a billion dollars a year. The farmer was…
- Three exits, three very different endings: What fast money does to founders | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie · 54 min · Season 5 Episode 29Money that arrives fast doesn't fix you. It finds out who you already are. Everyone assumes building real wealth takes twenty years. These three founders didn't wait. Seeby…
- 3 X GM's hired but only 1 exit: How I got this wrong | Dom Sutton | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie · 1 h 11 min · Season 5 Episode 28Dom Sutton hired three general managers to run the business he built. Two didn't work out, and he owns most of the reasons why. Dom started Pumpt with his last paycheck, running…
- How I went from "I Think I Want to Sell" to the $$ in 81 days! | Dr. Michael Filosi | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie · 56 min · Season 5 Episode 2781 days from "I think I want to sell" to the money clearing. No broker. No lawyer. Dr. Michael Filosi did the whole thing himself. He sold the largest dental practice in Adelaide…
- $100k to $10 million in four years: The cost of doing nothing else | Sarah Page | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie · 1 h 16 min · Season 5 Episode 26$100,000 in year one. $10 million by year four. When people ask Sarah Page how she did it, her answer makes them uncomfortable. She did nothing else. Sarah is the founder and CEO…
- The non-performing salespeople weren't the problem. I was. | Rich Conway | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie · 1 h 15 min · Season 5 Episode 25Rich Conway spent hundreds of thousands of dollars proving he was hiring the wrong salespeople. He was wrong about that too. He was bringing in good people, then setting them up…
- By interviewing 20+ founders, she added 25% to the price! | Shivani Gupta | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie · 1 h 14 min · Season 5 Episode 24Most founders sell a business once, with no idea what they're doing. Shivani Gupta refused to go in blind. Before she sold her wellness business, Shivani tracked down more than…
- Taking on and beating the giants | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie · 30 min · Season 5 Episode 23The Comma Club is now open for founding members — a private community for NZ founders building toward a multimillion-dollar exit: https://www.joshcomrie.com/club Shane Young flew…
- 50 Ferraris, 4 exits and a fight for his life | Grant Baker | 2 Commas with Josh Comrie · 1 h 13 min · Season 5 Episode 22The Comma Club is now open for founding members — a private community for NZ founders building toward a multimillion-dollar exit: https://www.joshcomrie.com/club Grant Baker…
- He’s invested $billions and not taken a single share of equity | Tim Wixon | 2 Commas with Josh Comrie · 1 h 7 min · Season 5 Episode 21Tim Wixon has put debt funding into more than 1,700 New Zealand tech companies. He has never taken a single share of equity in any of them. As Head of Technology and Innovation…
- Simplicity: The $11B charity, that's worth nothing, and can never be sold! | Sam Stubbs | 2 Commas with Josh Comrie · 1 h 34 min · Season 5 Episode 20KiwiSaver fees in New Zealand will hit a billion dollars this year. Sam Stubbs has been the loudest voice in the country saying that's a scandal and building something to prove…
- Why I left millions on the table | Carl Thompson | 2 Commas with Josh Comrie · 1 h 23 min · Season 5 Episode 19Carl Thompson flew to Singapore with $3,000, shared a pullout bed with his co-founder in a room so small he could touch the wall sitting up, and cold-called New York at 2am…
- Why I closed a business that fed 2,500 kids a day | Lisa King with Josh Comrie · 1 h 38 min · Season 5 Episode 18Lisa King had a goal from the very first day of Eat My Lunch: the business would be a success the day it became unnecessary. She built it in 2015 to solve a problem she couldn't…
- Would you sell 80% of your business to 5X its value? | Murray Schnuriger and Toby King with Josh Comrie · 1 h 25 min · Season 5 Episode 17Most founders won't give up 80% of their business. The ones who did walked away with more than if they'd kept 100%. Murray Schnuriger made the jump from 20 years advising…
- I gave away half of my business on a handshake. Here's why. | Mark Zeman with Josh Comrie · 1 h 25 min · Season 5 Episode 16What if the most successful version of your company is the smallest one? This week I sit down with Mark Zeman, co-founder of SpeedCurve, who quietly built one of the most unusual…
- 67% of founding teams fail. Here's why | Logan Yonavjak | 2 Commas · 47 min · Season 5 Episode 15What if the biggest risk in your company isn't your product, it's whether your people are actually ready to lead? This week, I sit down with Logan Yonavjak, founder of the…
- John Bessey: His doctor said he was fine. The blood work said otherwise. · 1 h 6 min · Season 5 Episode 14Most of us have no idea what's actually going on inside our body. John Bessey has been in the room for three major tech exits as CEO of Merkle (Davanti), head of revenue at…
