The dark side of selling your startup nobody talks about

but you know? And was it, like, a a good exit or more of, like, an acquihire situation? Like, what what was kind of the the dynamics of it? Yeah. So that was, we actually had started to try to sell the company,

and we kind of lost our passion for it. It wasn't looking looking like we could build a strong business off of a pretty large user base. And so we initially started with,

looking for an acquihire. So we, like, hired a banker, and we thought, like, okay. Maybe a banker will help us facilitate something better than an acquihire. At the same time, we'll go talk to companies. We can actually take some time on this tangent because, you know, this idea, like, great companies are bought, not sold, blah blah blah, and it's true. But when you have a company that for whatever reason isn't either you're not passionate anymore or isn't working to the level you wanted to, like, what can you actively do to sell your company is not at all well understood. Frankly, I feel like I have a playbook either. Like, it's it is a bit of a dark side, so I'm really curious, you know, exactly what you did and ultimately what what worked. Yeah. I think the a few interesting