How A Venture Capital Firm Can Influence Your Decision To Sell | Jean Anne Booth

The Wise Exit

EPISODE 58: THIS WEEK'S GUEST - JEAN ANNE BOOTH
In this episode, Jean Anne talks about:

• Having multiple strategic investors on your cap table
• Being prepared for your buyer to change the terms of your exit days before signing
• Knowing what you should say no to when raising capital or selling your company

GUEST BIO:
Jean Anne Booth is a serial entrepreneur with a number of successful exits, including selling Luminary Micro to Texas Instruments in 2009 and Intrinsity to Apple in the early 2000's. Her background spans from P&L business unit management to marketing; product definition; systems, software, and applications engineering; silicon development engineering; and operations and product engineering.

Jean Anne has over 30 years of experience in high tech ventures and has raised over $100 million in venture capital for her companies. Now on her fourth tech startup, Jean Anne is building UnaliWear, a wearable “OnStar for people” watch to provide discreet support for falls, medication reminders, and to guard against wandering.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Jean Anne Booth.

WHERE TO FIND JEAN ANNE BOOTH:

LinkedIn
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EPISODE REFERENCES AND READING MATERIAL:
Texas Instruments Acquires Luminary Micro, Expands MCU Lineup
Apple buys chipmaker Intrinsity
Mythic.ai