Startup Acquisitions Stories Podcast With Victor Metelskiy, Founder of Sitekick.ai

Startup Acquisitions Stories Podcast With Victor Metelskiy, Founder of Sitekick.ai

Author: Acquire.com July 24, 2024 Duration: 34:25

Would you sell your business right as it was going viral on social media?

Victor created his AI landing page builder, Sitekick.ai as a way to salvage a previous project – a slide deck builder called Slidekick.

He thought this too would be a flop, but he added AI capability right as ChatGPT kicked off and went viral on YouTube when a vlogger found his website.

In one day he jumped from one email a day to hundreds of emails and 25 sales per day.

But even with virality, making websites wasn’t Victor’s passion. He listed on Acquire.com hoping to get a sale while his app was trending. With the help of the Acquire team (shout out to Matt), he closed in a few short months.

After closing, Viktor took a long vacation, went to the gym, took his wife out to dinner, and now he’s gearing up to make his future passion project.

Tune in to this weeks Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast with Andrew and Victor in to hear:

  • Victor’s experience with a nightmare buyer
  • Why Victor suggests you put as much information as possible on your acquire profile
  • How Acquire’s M&A advisors helped him safely make an acquisition


Victor is just getting started and you can follow his journey using the links below:


Behind every successful startup acquisition, there's a story-a complex mix of strategy, emotion, and paperwork that rarely gets discussed openly. Startup Acquisition Stories, from the team at Acquire.com, pulls back the curtain on those real-world transactions. Each episode features founders and entrepreneurs who have personally navigated the process of selling or buying a business through their platform. You'll hear them recount the nuanced decisions that don't make it into press releases: the challenging conversations around valuation, the subtle art of vetting the opposite party, and the critical, often overlooked, steps after the handshake. This podcast digs into the practicalities of due diligence, structuring terms, and managing the transfer of assets, all the way through to escrow and the crucial post-deal transition. It’s a grounded, detail-oriented look at the mechanics of a business exit or expansion, straight from the people who’ve lived it. For anyone curious about the actual path to a deal, beyond the theory, this series offers a rare archive of lived experience and hard-won advice.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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