# I Sold My Company for $10 Million. I Didn't Get $10 Million.

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Podcast: [First Smoke of The Day](https://stenobird.com/podcast/first-smoke-of-the-day-3952642)
Published: 2026-09-21T19:23:38+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/first-smoke-of-the-day/episodes/i-sold-my-company-for-10-million-i-didnt-get-10-million
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## Resource

Full episode is up at fsotd.com Harrison sold his company for $10 million. A third of it was cash and two thirds was stock. Then the stock fell from around $8 a share to $1. In this episode he breaks down the full acquisition. The buyer had just purchased three of his biggest competitors, and when the offer came in around $9 million, he said ten or he walks. They agreed. What followed was two years nobody saw: a seven figure tax bill on money he didn't have yet, staff who couldn't be told about the deal in advance, and a real possibility of walking away with a fraction of the headline number. He also talks about the $15 million valuation offers he passed on years earlier, the non-compete that kept him out of the industry he loved, and what the money actually changed once it finally landed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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