Paul Graham, co-founder of YCombinator, is a smart dude. Founders rightfully listen to what he has to say. One of his many pearls of wisdom is that founders should NOT talk to corporate development groups. Having spent the last 3 days in SF doing…

For my first exit example post here on Real Exits, I thought I’d go back to the first exit I went through as a CFO.

In 2006, I ran Finance for Terrascale Technologies. Terrascale was in the data storage space, feeding massive amounts of data into…