About the show

Most conversations about selling a business happen before the sale: multiples, diligence, who's buying, who's walking away. The Exit starts after all of that is settled, with owners who have already closed the deal and walked out the door.

Host Mike McCann is a Senior Business Advisor at Gateway Business Advisors, where he spends his days on the inside of that process: valuing companies, preparing owners to sell, and walking deals from the first conversation to the closing table. On The Exit, he brings in people who have already been through it, to talk about what actually happened once the deal closed: what changed the next morning, what the money did and didn't fix, what they wish someone had told them a year before they sold. Nationally, nearly three out of four business owners say they want to transition out of their company within the next ten years, and fewer than half have a written plan for how. The Exit is the conversation most owners have too late, moved earlier and put on the record.