Founders deserve advisors who've sat in their seat and understand what it took to build the thing in the first place.
about hello exit
Founders helping founders exit.
The M&A advisory market was not built for founders. Marketplaces feel impersonal. Investment banks reserve their attention for nine-figure deals. Hello Exit sits in between: a full-service exit advisory built by operators who have sold their own.
What we believe
Selling your business deserves better than a listing fee.
Transparency beats theater. The deal stages, buyer feedback, and offer math should be visible to you, not curated behind a closed door.
We tell you no when no is the right answer, even when it costs us the deal. Field-tested process, not academic theory.
Operators
The operators behind Hello Exit.
Together, our principals have built and sold nearly 60 businesses. Now we help other founders do the same.
Dustin Struckman
Founder & CEODustin has built over 30 businesses and exited a dozen of them. He founded and operates Hello Exit, and several other M&A-related companies and platforms.
Roland Frasier
PartnerRoland has built or sold 24 businesses with sale prices from $3M to just under $4B. He was co-founder or principal of six Inc. fastest-growing companies.
Ryan Deiss
PartnerRyan founded DigitalMarketer and The Scalable Company, and is a partner at Scalable Equity. He's the architect of the Customer Value Optimization methodology.
by the numbers
1,000+ deals closed across our principals
$1M-$400M transaction range
~60 businesses built and sold by our principals
5-12 serious buyers brought to the final stage per engagement