[NEXT] Lunch and Learn: The Exit: An Honest Conversation About Selling Your Company

​There are countless podcasts and workshops on how to raise capital, build product and land your first customers. Very few talk about the ins and outs of selling a company to a big tech acquirer.

Exiting is every bit as complex as fundraising, but for founders it's a one-time event with high stakes. It stays off-limits to even talk about until you're in the middle of it, which is exactly when it's too late to learn.

Join us for a session about the end of the founder story, not the beginning.

Jessica Christiansen-Franks spent eight years building Neighbourlytics before selling it to REA Group. She's giving the honest version, the stuff that you don't learn till it's too late.

​We'll get into:

• ​The moment the board stops rowing in the same direction (spoiler: it's the second an exit lands on the table)

• ​Why founders and shareholders end up speaking completely different languages about the same deal

• ​The early structural decisions that decide whether you do well or end up last money out

• ​What actually happens after the deal closes, including the parts that can leave you personally exposed

• ​Why founders never really do it for the money, and what that costs them at exit

​Who should attend?

• ​Founders who want the unfiltered reality of selling a company

• ​Founders weighing an exit who want to know what to look out for before it's on the table

• ​Founders making early decisions right now that will quietly shape their exit later

• ​Anyone startup-curious who wants a real founder story, not the press-release version

​About Jessica:

​Jessica Christiansen-Franks is Director of the Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship and co-founder of Neighbourlytics, the urban analytics company she scaled to 20,000+ neighbourhoods across 12 countries before its exit to REA Group. With a background in urban design spanning four continents and two decades in social impact, innovation and human-centred design, she has spent her career helping founders and changemakers build things that matter.

​About Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship:

​Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship is Australia's leading centre for entrepreneurial education, based at Ormond College, University of Melbourne. Since 2015 it's run immersive programs for founders, investors and educators, including the University of Melbourne's Master of Entrepreneurship.