EVAN CARMICHAEL COMMUNICATIONS GROUP

No? Wait, what? The plan was perfect. How could it be a no? Can you read it again? "Sorry, no." I was shocked. All that time invested for nothing. But then we thought, "Hey, the #1 company won't buy us but maybe one of their smaller competitors will?" So we started reaching out, eventually getting a meeting with the #4 biggest company. They were super interested, had just raised a bunch of money to buy companies like ours and we got in for a meeting with them. They told us that they were indeed looking to buy a software company like ours and had already been talking to our biggest rival for the past three months. They really liked us, our plan, our software, and us as people . . . but they were going to buy our rival because they had already spent so much time talking to them and they wanted to move quickly. They bought our rival for $40 million.

Also known as: Evan Carmichael

Primary location: Toronto Canada