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Oct 19, 2026
Billion-dollar founder: 5 rules I use to build businesses that actually scale
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Fintan CostelloHOST
Could you unpack that for us and tell us what you learned off the back of that?
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3:21Daniel GestetnerGUEST
I mean, I learned that kind of timing is such an important part of business.
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3:27Daniel GestetnerGUEST
You can have a great concept and a great idea, but timing-wise, it was just the market wasn't there anymore.
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3:40Daniel GestetnerGUEST
It was, you know, we turned down a quarter of a billion cash offer, as you say, because Our bankers said we were about to IPA for half a billion, and we'd be trading at a billion within days of IPAing for half a billion.
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3:51Daniel GestetnerGUEST
So it made sense to our investors and our board, and we'd raise tens of millions of dollars.
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Fintan CostelloHOST
What's your thought on that? And do you think that that's a little bit different to the way that you would approach it?