“I floated the company on the stock market. And five years later, I sold it for 10 times the float price.”

Gary Ashworth · The Nomad CEO Podcast · A Millionaire Leaves Britain Every 45 Minutes: Serial Entrepreneur Gary Ashworth Explains Why

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Floated his company on the stock market and later sold it

sold for 10 times the float price

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“I thought, well, let's set a goal to float this company on the stock market. And then that gave me the kind of roadmap I needed to chunk that down into bite-sized chunks.”
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“We basically just invested in index funds. I think half of it was in a total stock market index fund. The other half was in a total international stock market index fund.”
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“I sold my position after a steep decline in the stock, followed by the CFO resigning.”
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