What Ironman taught me about building an exit-ready business
The mindset and systems behind 38 successful founder exits
You built the company. You do the sport. But 90% of your net worth is still locked inside the business, and hope is not an exit plan. In one hour, Steven shows you the 3 endurance principles behind clean exits, from the only guide who has crossed both finish lines.
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Why a founder who could not run a mile at 40 ended up in Kona at 52, and what that has to do with the 90% of your net worth still locked inside your company.
You're racing two things at once. Most founders lose both.
In this free 60-minute webinar, Steven breaks down the three lessons behind 38 successful founder exits and $1.2 billion in founder wealth created: the same lessons that carried him from a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn to a clean exit, and from being unable to run a mile at 40 to the IRONMAN World Championship at 52.
Pacing beats power
The valuation drift that quietly kills exits, and why the founders who start their two-to-four-year roadmap before they feel ready are the ones who exit on their own terms.
Pressure exposes your team
What six hours of ugly open water reveals that a boardroom can't, and the 90-day step-away test that predicts what due diligence will find.
Push vs. recover
The race-day decision framework: know your true walk-away number and survive a 12-month deal without breaking your body or your family.
He's finished both races. Now he's pacing founders through theirs.
Steven built Binary Tree in 1993 from a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. He survived two near-bankruptcies, scaled to 200+ employees across 12 countries, and sold to a $4 billion competitor in 2020: no earn-out, no transition period. He walked out the same day the deal closed.
Then there's the other race: from unable to run a mile at 40 to the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona at 52.
"The founders who finish strong aren't always the fastest. They're the ones who prepared the most."- Steven Pivnik
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Wednesday, September 9 at 6:00 PM ET. 60 minutes of real frameworks plus live Q&A with Steven. Free, live, and not recorded for casual catch-up. Show up and get the systems behind 38 founder exits.
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