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Experienced dealmaker and entrepreneur Touraj Parang shares his philosophy that an exit strategy if implemented early, is the surprising secret to ultimate startup success. This wide-ranging discussion covers the differences and parallels between venture capital and corporate development, common mistakes to avoid when selling, planning a successful exit strategy, insights into how to make leverage work in exit planning, and tips on negotiating the LOI and purchase agreement for a successful exit.
Touraj Parang is a veteran Silicon Valley dealmaker. He is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor, adviser, corporate attorney, and M&A expert who has sat in almost every seat around the table, structuring and negotiating strategic transactions since the late 1990s. Touraj has been a founder, executive, and trusted adviser to several fast-growing technology startups, with exits to LinkedIn, Instacart, VistaPrint, Postmates, and Amplify, among others. He has also spent nearly a decade on the acquirer side of M&A deals as a corporate development executive at Webs and GoDaddy.
His new book Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game draws on Touraj’s decades-long unique experience involving hundreds of M&A transactions, strategic partnerships, and venture capital investments totaling billions of dollars in aggregate value. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Serve Robotics, which he helped spin out of Uber, and an Operating Advisor at Pear VC, an early-stage venture capital firm. He earned his JD from Yale Law School and his AB in Philosophy and Economics from Stanford University.