Downtown Jacksonville office towers seen across the St. Johns River at dusk.

Casting the host of The Exit

The decisions before and after a Jacksonville business changes hands.

advisor.TV is selecting the trusted voice who will lead the conversation.

  • 1,000+ conversations
  • Since 2014
  • Produced in Jacksonville

Real operators. Real conversations. The chair cannot be bought.

Still frame from the archive conversation with Chuck Templeton, Founder of Open Table.

Chuck Templeton, Founder of Open Table

2014 · from the advisor.TV archive

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This seat is for

This seat is being designed for someone trusted by owners before the transaction becomes public.

  • Independent wealth management founder or senior partner
  • Trusted by business owners
  • Jacksonville and Northeast Florida relationships
  • Comfortable leading candid conversations
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Why Jacksonville

22,096

employer firms operate in Duval County.

Every one will eventually change hands, close or outlive its founder. That moment is decided years earlier, in private, and almost none of it is on the record.

Source U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts, 2023

The first two conversations

Two episodes to open with.

  1. The company was ready. The owner was not.

    A founder on preparing the business, the family and themselves for a sale.

  2. What happens the morning after liquidity.

    An exited owner on identity, family, investing and deciding what comes next.

Possible first season
  1. 01Knowing when it is time
  2. 02Building value before the sale
  3. 03Selling to family, employees or outsiders
  4. 04The deal that almost collapsed
  5. 05Life after liquidity
  6. 06What owners wish they had done five years earlier

What it costs

Nothing. Mabbly funds the first two episodes.

I co founded Mabbly, and it funds this because Jacksonville is worth documenting.

Hosting obligates you to nothing.

How we host

How this works

Two episodes first. The season is earned.

  1. Step 1

    Conversation

    We talk about the show, the vertical and the people you want in the chair.

  2. Step 2

    Two episode pilot

    We produce two episodes end to end. Mabbly funds them. You pay nothing.

  3. Step 3

    Greenlight

    We decide together after episode two. If the guests you wanted said yes and the conversations were good, the show moves forward.

  4. Step 4

    Season

    Twelve episodes, two a month, across six months.

  5. Step 5

    The season is sponsored

    Mabbly continues as the sponsor, or advisor.TV brings in a category sponsor whose business belongs near that conversation. You never pay and you are never asked to sell it.

Nothing here promises a permanent show. A pilot earns a season, and a season earns the next one.

The conversation compounds

One good conversation produces the next one.

  1. Owner conversation
  2. Trusted introduction
  3. Next guest
  4. Permanent archive

You lead the conversation. advisor.TV handles everything else.

  1. PrepareGuest research, subject preparation and the questions worth asking.
  2. RecordStudio, cameras, sound and direction in Ponte Vedra.
  3. PublishEditing, publishing and distribution, then the permanent archive.
The advisor.TV studio in Ponte Vedra during a recording.

1,000+

conversations recorded since 2014. 410 browsable today, the rest being restored from the vault.

  • Produced in Chicago, and now in Jacksonville.
  • Microsoft sponsored the Chicago era.
  • Mabbly is the founding Jacksonville sponsor.
Still frame from the archive conversation with Chuck Templeton, Founder of Open Table.
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Nobody builds alone.

The platform can be sponsored. The conversation cannot be bought.

One show. One trusted voice. Two conversations to begin.

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A note for candidates inside regulated firms. Please obtain any internal approval your compliance team requires before recording. We are used to working within it and will supply anything they ask for.

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