
I Said No to a $25 Million Buyout Offer for My Startup
When Brian from HubSpot kicked off the financial talk, he mentioned they were thinking of spending somewhere between twenty and thirty million dollars to acquire my company.
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When Brian from HubSpot kicked off the financial talk, he mentioned they were thinking of spending somewhere between twenty and thirty million dollars to acquire my company.

In the thirteen years we’d been building Moz, we only ever got one serious acquisition offer. It all went down over 24 freezing cold hours in Washington, D.C.

I once thought I had an idea that was going to change the world of marketing. I was sure we were building software every business needed, something that would launch my company, Moz, into the stratosphere. I was wrong.

Let me be unabashedly nerdy for a second: I love SEO.