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"What matters for me and what I've learned over the last 14 years is that I helped other people be successful. " -Joel Lessem

Joel Lessem has over 25 years experience in successfully accelerating revenues and growth of businesses. Under his leadership, Firmex is rapidly becoming a standard for sharing large volumes of highly confidential and sensitive documents for corporate transactions, litigation and compliance. Firmex is a rule of 40 business delivering strong investor returns and high customer and employee satisfaction scores.

Prior to co-founding Firmex in 2006, Joel drove the US growth of Point Force leading to the company's acquisition in 2004. In 1999, Joel co-founded Crescent logic, a software company that provided online equity research publishing tools for investment banks.

SHOW NOTES

The lucrative power of an option plan when selling your company
Why you should always take enough money off the table if you decide to stay on after selling your business
How to determine if you have what it takes to stay in the company after exiting
What private equity groups bring to the table that other buyers don't
How an auction process helped Joel get top dollar when selling Firmex
The benefits an auction brings to the merger and acquisition process
What to expect in due diligence
How to adapt your mindset when starting the process of selling your business
What Joel's company, Firmex, does and its role in the mergers and acquisitions industry
The power of a virtual data room and why you need one
How a virtual data room works
Why a virtual data room can save you from making costly and embarrassing mistakes
How Firmex had approximately 15% of the deal volume in North America
Why it's important to put yourself in the buyer's shoes to help guide you through due diligence
How Firmex has responded to COVID-19 to serve its clients and protect its employees
When you're prepared you have choices. Joel talks about industries benefiting from COVID-19.
Joel discusses how honesty, fairness, collaboration, and shared success are his values
Why leaders can adopt these values to have a healthy and successful culture
What drives Joel is helping other people being successful

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