2 Commas: The $multi-million exit show with Josh Comrie

Welcome to 2 Commas: The $multi-million exit show I've spent over two decades helping founders scale their businesses and achieve successful, multimillion-dollar exits. I've also achieved this myself on multiple occasions. With my experience as an entrepreneur, advisor, and investor, I’ve had the privilege of guiding companies through the highs and lows of business growth and exit strategies. Each episode will bring you the previously untold stories of entrepreneurs who have successfully scaled and exited their businesses for seven-figure (2 comma's) plus returns. You’ll hear more about the journeys, challenges, and pivotal moments that led to these transformative exits. My goal is to inform and inspire founders who are looking to scale their ventures to seven, eight or nine figures and beyond. Follow me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joshc

2 Commas: The $multi-million exit show with Josh Comrie is a business podcast hosted by Josh Comrie, with 95 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Josh Comrie hosts 2 Commas: The $multi-million exit show with Josh Comrie, a business show with 95 episodes published.

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  Episode #29

  26 years of Huffer, and what came next | Steve Dunstan | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie

  Sep 30, 20261h 23mS5

  $20 and a fax machine. That's what Steve Dunstan started Huffer with. Twenty-six years later, he'd built one of New Zealand's most recognised streetwear brands, scaled it to around 200 people, survived the GFC, wrestled with a US expansion that didn't go to plan, and lost a co-founder along the way. In this one, Steve is straight about the part founders rarely admit: what happens to your identity when you and the brand become the same thing, what it takes to sell a business you built from the ground up, and how you rebuild yourself once it's gone. We get into: The $20 start and why the constraint helped $35k to over $1m in four years, no outside money Surviving the GFC as a fashion brand Why belonging became the thing that drove performance The exit after 26 years, and what came next Would you know how to stop being the business, the day you finally sell it? Subscribe to the 2 Commas Journal Order the 2 Commas book Follow Josh on LinkedIn Connect with Steve Dunstan

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  2 Commas: The $multi-million exit show with Josh Comrie

  An illegal fence, an angry horse, and a billion-dollar company | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie

  Sep 23, 202635 minS5

  In 1937 a horse kept scratching its backside on a farmer's brand new car. That horse accidentally started a company now closing in on a billion dollars a year. The farmer was Bill Gallagher. He wired the magneto off a motorcycle to his car, shocked the horse, and realised he had a business. His first electric fence was illegal, wired straight into the mains until an inspector made him rip it out, which pushed him to invent the world's first battery powered energizer. This is a solo episode on the Gallagher Group, from a Waikato shed to Buckingham Palace, British Gas, and four of the Five Eyes intelligence sites. It is one of the great New Zealand business stories and a genuine masterclass in diversification, succession, and turning what you already know into what you sell next. I get into: How the 1984 Rogernomics reforms wiped out Gallagher's farmer customer base overnight The world-first pivot into perimeter security that saved the company Why the best diversifications sit where your capability meets a rising global tailwind Why they put 10% of revenue into R&D every year, good times or bad Why they handed the CEO role to a 24-year employee, not the next Gallagher Sometimes the next billion dollar business is just your old invention pointed at a new problem. Subscribe to the 2 Commas Journal Order the 2 Commas book Follow Josh on LinkedIn

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  Episode #28

  Three exits, three very different endings: What fast money does to founders | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie

  Sep 17, 202654 minS5

  Money that arrives fast doesn't fix you. It finds out who you already are. Everyone assumes building real wealth takes twenty years. These three founders didn't wait. Seeby Woodhouse registered Orcon for $29.85 at nineteen, doubled it every year for nine years, and exited at twenty-nine, then spent $18 million on property six weeks before the GFC. Keith Davison failed at five companies before Cloud Conformity went from nothing to a $120 million exit in under two and a half years, with no founder taking a salary for most of them. Joshua Parsons was a cop at seventeen, cleaning pools at twenty-seven, and had built and sold two companies by his early thirties. This best-of episode is three honest accounts of fast money and what it costs. We get into: Seeby doubling his company every year for nine years straight Why Keith took zero salary for two and a half years before a $120m exit How Joshua learned to sell as a cop before he ever ran a business What Seeby did with millions at twenty-nine and the GFC lesson that followed Why all three say the money was the start of the hard part Getting rich young is a skill nobody teaches you how to survive. Subscribe to the 2 Commas Journal Order the 2 Commas book Follow Josh on LinkedIn

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  Episode #27

  3 X GM's hired but only 1 exit: How I got this wrong | Dom Sutton | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie

  Sep 9, 20261h 11mS5

  Dom Sutton hired three general managers to run the business he built. Two didn't work out, and he owns most of the reasons why. Dom started Pumpt with his last paycheck, running cold calls from a tiny room next to the toilet while his two boys slept on a mattress beside his bed. He grew it into an advertising business putting 70 million items into NZ letterboxes a year. This is an unusually honest conversation about the founder-to-owner transition, the difference between delegating and abdicating, and why the lack of the right metrics let good months quietly slide into losses. He also tells the story of the toy business he bought on a lick-of-paint story that lost him a dollar a minute for two years, and how that exact disaster became StockTrim, the inventory forecasting software he now sells in 26 countries. We get into: Why two of his three GM hires failed and what he'd do differently Delegating vs abdicating, learned the hard way The $1.2 million toy business mistake and the due diligence lesson behind it How that failure became a global SaaS Why he walked away from selling Pumpt before finally exiting to his own GM Sometimes the business you build next comes straight out of the one that nearly broke you. ⁠Subscribe to the 2 Commas Journal⁠ Order the 2 Commas book⁠ Follow Josh on LinkedIn

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  Episode #26

  How I went from "I Think I Want to Sell" to the $$ in 81 days! | Dr. Michael Filosi | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie

  Sep 2, 202656 minS5

  81 days from "I think I want to sell" to the money clearing. No broker. No lawyer. Dr. Michael Filosi did the whole thing himself. He sold the largest dental practice in Adelaide to private equity at 41, at a multiple well above the industry norm. Ten years earlier he'd bought it with a possum living in the wall, two chairs, and pen-and-paper appointment books, the practice nobody else wanted. He saw the busy patient base underneath the mess, took it from worst to first, and built it into a genuinely sale-ready business. That's why, when he finally decided he'd had enough, it sold at warp speed. We get into: Why the sale moved in 81 days when most deals take months The buy-in structure that locked his purchase price years in advance What frictionless actually means to a buyer, and how he engineered it Why he refused to let private equity condition him down on price The four Ds model he used to get out of the chair and design the business Build it to sell long before you ever want to, and the exit takes care of itself. I'm building a community for founders serious about a real exit. Come find out what it's about, Click here to join the FREE Webinar. Follow me on LinkedIn Connect with Dr. Michael Filosi on LinkedIn

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