{"podcast":{"title":"The Cash Rich Exit Podcast","slug":"the-cash-rich-exit-podcast-12661","podcast_index_feed_id":12661,"rss_url":"https://iamamillionairesonowwhat.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://thecashrichexitpodcast.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/1/9/5/e1958bc3f386ebea16c3140a3186d450/EP278.png","author":"Colleen O'Connell-Campbell","episode_count":100,"summary":"Colleen O'Connell-Campbell hosts The Cash Rich Exit Podcast dedicated to business owners planning for a crucial financial step - exiting your business. Featuring a diverse array of guests from various industries and ideologies, each episode dives into strategies for building not just an exit, but a cash-rich one. Topped off with 'fun, frank advice,' this podcast is your roadmap to a successful business exit.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-01T02:17:27.325916+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cash-rich-exit-podcast-12661"},"episode":{"title":"EP349 From $300 to a Multi-Million Dollar Exit","slug":"ep349-from-300-to-a-multi-million-dollar-exit","published_at":"2026-06-16T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cash-rich-exit-podcast-12661/ep349-from-300-to-a-multi-million-dollar-exit","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cash-rich-exit-podcast-12661","url":"https://iamamillionairesonowwhat.libsyn.com/ep349-from-300-to-a-multi-million-dollar-exit","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/iamamillionairesonowwhat/349__BOBBIE_RACETTE_-_EXIT_.mp3?dest-id=708100","summary":"Bobbie Racette started with $300 at her kitchen table. Nine years later, she became the first Indigenous woman in Canada to build, scale, and sell a tech startup. In this episode - the first time Bobbie has dug into the details of the sale on a podcast - host Colleen O'Connell-Campbell sits down with the founder of Virtual Gurus, an AI-powered inclusive talent marketplace that matched underrepresented talent with businesses including Mastercard, Telus, and BMO. Bobbie shares the full arc: bootstrapping to $1.8 million in revenue before raising a cent, hearing 170 no's before closing a seed round, scaling through three funding rounds during COVID, becoming the first Indigenous woman in Canada to close a Series A, navigating founder fatigue, stepping down as CEO before the exit, and ultimately selling to a U.S. private equity firm that rolled Virtual Gurus into North America's largest virtual assistant platform - with the AI sold separately to a Calgary company. This is a conversation about what it takes to build something from nothing, what it costs personally, and what comes next when the mission is bigger than the transaction. Key Takeaways: Bobbie created Virtual Gurus in 2016 after being laid off in oil and gas and unable to find a job. She is Cree Métis, queer, and covered in tattoos - and nobody would hire her. The business started as a way to create a job for herself and evolved into a platform providing remote work to marginalized talent across Canada and the U.S. She bootstrapped to approximately $1.8 million in annual revenue before seeking external funding. The seed round took over two years and 170 investor rejections before closing at $1.25 million. The Series A, two years later, was significantly easier. Virtual Gurus scaled past $40 million in revenue and…","meta_description":"Bobbie Racette started with $300 at her kitchen table. Nine years later, she became the first Indigenous woman in Canada to build, scale, and sell a tech…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2316,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-cash-rich-exit-podcast-12661/episodes/ep349-from-300-to-a-multi-million-dollar-exit/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cash-rich-exit-podcast-12661/ep349-from-300-to-a-multi-million-dollar-exit.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}