What if a college side hustle selling textbooks could spark a $12M exit?
Nathan Hirsch did just that—turning trial-and-error Amazon sales into a global freelancer marketplace and then into a portfolio of companies built to scale without him. In this episode of Million Dollar Moment, Nathan shares the scrappy beginnings, the nail-biting setbacks, and the exact mindset that helped him know when to sell—and how to build again. Nathan went from flipping textbooks in college and pioneering early Amazon drop-shipping to building a pre-vetted freelancer marketplace to $12M ARR and a seven-figure exit—all with a fully remote team and no U.S. employees. We dig into timing an exit while you’re growing, structuring earn-outs you can actually live with, bulletproofing ops (hello, hourly backups), and stacking a portfolio where each business powers the others.
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