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Case Study | Managing the Emotional Rollercoaster of Selling Your Company
Startup Secrets
28 minutes 12 seconds
3 years ago
Case Study | Managing the Emotional Rollercoaster of Selling Your Company
In June 2021, Rana el Kaliouby, the former Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva, the creator of emotion AI, successfully sold her company to Smart Eye, the leading provider of human insight AI.
Despite many external indicators of success, Rana’s experience of going through an exit was deeply complex. In this interview with Underscore VC's Co-Founding Partner Michael Skok, she gives a vulnerable, unfiltered account of what it was like to sell her company.
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