265: Touraj Parang, Why you should plan an exit path

265: Touraj Parang, Why you should plan an exit path

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 265, an episode with a veteran Silicon Valley dealmaker, Touraj Parang. Get Touraj's book here: https://amzn.to/3bmsDGj

In this episode, Touraj takes us through his unique, decades-long experiences as an entrepreneur and investor. He shares the lessons he learned when he sold his first startup – with no exit plan – for pennies on the dollar. It was then followed by great success with his next startup as he applied his learnings and prioritized executing an exit strategy. Touraj discussed the key things to consider and the red flags to avoid when selecting investors and co-founders.

Touraj Parang is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and M&A expert who has sat in every seat around the table, structuring and negotiating strategic transactions since the late 1990s, including as a corporate attorney at legal powerhouses WSGR and O'Melveny & Myers. Touraj has been a founder, executive, and trusted advisor 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.

Exit Path draws on Touraj's unique, decades-long experience involving hundreds of M&A transactions, strategic partnerships, and venture capital investments totaling billions of dollars in aggregate value. He is currently the President and Chief Operating Officer at Serve Robotics, a startup shaping the future of sustainable, self-driving delivery that he helped spin out of Uber, and an Operating Advisor at Pear VC, an early-stage venture capital firm, where he enjoys collaborating with and providing strategic guidance to mission-driven entrepreneurs. He earned his JD from Yale Law School and his BA in Philosophy and Economics from Stanford University.

Get Touraj's book here:

Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game. Touraj Parang. https://amzn.to/3bmsDGj

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344: Should I wait to publish a solo book? Author Program Q&A 5 (Strategy Skills classics)

344: Should I wait to publish a solo book? Author Program Q&A 5 (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic from a 10 episode program to help our clients and customers measurably, radically transform their careers through The Author Program. How would your career, reputation, and earnings change as a published author? Imagine your client interactions when potential and current clients saw your thinking in a published book before they met you? Imagine the time you would save not having to explain your ideas and the value you could add to them? Imagine the fee premium you could earn? Imagine avoiding awkward meetings trying to establish your credibility? Imagine how many potential clients would find you and reach out to you? Learn more and see the application guidelines: https://www.firmsconsulting.com/experts-published-author-program/ Apply: email team@firmsconsulting.com Enjoying our podcast? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

8 Maj 202311min

343: Is it expensive? Author Program Q&A 4 (Strategy Skills classics)

343: Is it expensive? Author Program Q&A 4 (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic from a 10 episode program to help our clients and customers measurably, radically transform their careers through The Author Program. How would your career, reputation, and earnings change as a published author? Imagine your client interactions when potential and current clients saw your thinking in a published book before they met you? Imagine the time you would save not having to explain your ideas and the value you could add to them? Imagine the fee premium you could earn? Imagine avoiding awkward meetings trying to establish your credibility? Imagine how many potential clients would find you and reach out to you? Learn more and see the application guidelines: https://www.firmsconsulting.com/experts-published-author-program/ Apply: email team@firmsconsulting.com Enjoying our podcast? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

3 Maj 202311min

342: What is the ROI? Author Program Q&A 3 (Strategy Skills classics)

342: What is the ROI? Author Program Q&A 3 (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic from a 10 episode program to help our clients and customers measurably, radically transform their careers through The Author Program. How would your career, reputation, and earnings change as a published author? Imagine your client interactions when potential and current clients saw your thinking in a published book before they met you? Imagine the time you would save not having to explain your ideas and the value you could add to them? Imagine the fee premium you could earn? Imagine avoiding awkward meetings trying to establish your credibility? Imagine how many potential clients would find you and reach out to you? Learn more and see the application guidelines: https://www.firmsconsulting.com/experts-published-author-program/ Apply: email team@firmsconsulting.com Enjoying our podcast? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

1 Maj 20239min

341: Ex McKinsey expert on war games, John Horn. How to read your competitors

341: Ex McKinsey expert on war games, John Horn. How to read your competitors

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 341, an interview with the author of Inside the Competitor's Mindset, John Horn, where he shares proven techniques to help businesses think like the competition and understand why they act the way they do. Inside the Competitor's Mindset presents a systematic approach to competitive intelligence that starts with three frameworks to get inside the competitor's mindset, predict their reactions to your moves, and assess whether the competition is getting ready for a spontaneous move of their own. John Horn is a professor of practice in economics at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches MBA students microeconomics, macroeconomics, and global business. John was a Senior Expert in the Strategy Practice of McKinsey & Company for 9 years, working with clients on competitive strategy, war gaming workshops, and corporate and business unit strategy across a variety of industries and geographies. He helped over 100 clients with war game workshops and developed a set of simulation exercises to help companies understand the challenges of reallocating resources. He continues to consult through his LLC: Gateway Competitive Insights. John has published nine papers in the McKinsey Quarterly and three in the Harvard Business Review, mostly on the application of behavioral economics and competitive insight to business strategy. John has a PhD in economics from Harvard University, where he also received a Masters degree in economics. Get John's book here: Inside the Competitor's Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success. John Horn https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Competitors-Mindset-Position-Management-ebook/dp/B0B6B6KWQ6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3ABN4GWJ5ZXMX&keywords=inside+the+competitor%27s+mindset&qid=1682495837&s=digital-text&sprefix=inside+the+competitor%27s+mind%2Cdigital-text%2C293&sr=1-1 Enjoying this episode? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

26 Apr 20231h

340: Is it a good time now or should I wait until I become more senior? Author Program Q&A 2. (Strategy Skills classics)

340: Is it a good time now or should I wait until I become more senior? Author Program Q&A 2. (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic from a 10 episode program to help our clients and customers measurably, radically transform their careers through The Author Program. How would your career, reputation, and earnings change as a published author? Imagine your client interactions when potential and current clients saw your thinking in a published book before they met you? Imagine the time you would save not having to explain your ideas and the value you could add to them? Imagine the fee premium you could earn? Imagine avoiding awkward meetings trying to establish your credibility? Imagine how many potential clients would find you and reach out to you? Learn more and see the application guidelines: https://www.firmsconsulting.com/experts-published-author-program/ Apply: email team@firmsconsulting.com Enjoying our podcast? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

24 Apr 20236min

339: Is this good for my career at this point in time? Author Program Q&A 1. (Strategy Skills classics)

339: Is this good for my career at this point in time? Author Program Q&A 1. (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic from a 10 episode program to help our clients and customers measurably, radically transform their careers through The Author Program. How would your career, reputation, and earnings change as a published author? Imagine your client interactions when potential and current clients saw your thinking in a published book before they met you? Imagine the time you would save not having to explain your ideas and the value you could add to them? Imagine the fee premium you could earn? Imagine avoiding awkward meetings trying to establish your credibility? Imagine how many potential clients would find you and reach out to you? Learn more and see the application guidelines: https://www.firmsconsulting.com/experts-published-author-program/ Apply: email team@firmsconsulting.com Enjoying our podcast? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

19 Apr 20236min

338: Yale's Ryan McAnnally-Linz, What makes a good life?

338: Yale's Ryan McAnnally-Linz, What makes a good life?

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 338, an interview with Ryan McAnnally-Linz, coauthor of Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. This book provides readers with jumping-off points, road maps, and habits of reflection for figuring out where their lives hold meaning and where things need to change. The book draws from major world religions and from impressively truthful and courageous figures such as Jesus, Muhammad, the Buddha, Aristotle, Socrates, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Dalai Lama, Ida B. Wells, James Baldwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Confucius, and Nietzsche, to name a few. The authors' goal is for readers to define and create a flourishing life, and answer one of life's most pressing questions: how are we to live? Ryan McAnnally-Linz is the associate director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. He is a coauthor with Volf of The Home of God and Public Faith in Action (Brazos), a 2016 Publishers Weekly Best Book in religion, and has written for The Washington Post's Acts of Faith, Sojourners, and The Christian Century. Get Ryan's book here: Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, Ryan McAnnally-Linz. https://www.amazon.com/Life-Worth-Living-Guide-Matters-ebook/dp/B0B5CZ6YM3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1C3TO2I7SIO5M&keywords=life+worth+living&qid=1681712806&s=digital-text&sprefix=life+worth+livin%2Cdigital-text%2C311&sr=1-1 Enjoying this episode? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

17 Apr 202355min

337: How publishing a book fast-tracked me to partnership (Strategy Skills classics)

337: How publishing a book fast-tracked me to partnership (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic from a 10 episode program to help our clients and customers measurably, radically transform their careers through The Author Program. How would your career, reputation, and earnings change as a published author? Imagine your client interactions when potential and current clients saw your thinking in a published book before they met you? Imagine the time you would save not having to explain your ideas and the value you could add to them? Imagine the fee premium you could earn? Imagine avoiding awkward meetings trying to establish your credibility? Imagine how many potential clients would find you and reach out to you? Learn more and see the application guidelines: https://www.firmsconsulting.com/experts-published-author-program/ Apply: email team@firmsconsulting.com Enjoying our podcast? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

12 Apr 202326min

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