my co-founder and i are currently working on an exit strategy. we re trying to take an analytical approach to it, and we could really use some help and guidance in that area to kind of take the emotional issue out of moving a business forward. when trying to understand the value of your business for an exit strategy, it s important to get a couple of different data points. so, number one is public markets. you can look at companies that do similar things even though they re much bigger companies. there s a multiple on revenue and there s underlying data. the second thing you can do is look at how much cash the business is throwing off. how much money will it generate over the next couple years? what s the growth rate of the business? those are all variables that give you predictability into what the true value of the business is. so for me i think it s really important to look at key
when we come back, why you need to take the emotion out of your exit strategy and how having a gig on the side can help you run your company. so that s the idea. what do you think? hate to play devil s advocate but. i kind of feel like it s a game changer. i wouldn t go that far. are you there? he s probably on mute. yeah. gary won t like it. why? because he s gary. (phone ringing) what? keep going! yeah. (laughs) (voice on phone) it s not millennial enough. there are a lot of ways to say no. thank you so much. thank you! so we re doing it. yes! start saying yes to your company s best ideas. let us help with money and know-how, so you can get business done. american express open.
it seems to be we don t know what the larger strategy is. we haven t heard enough from this president about it, and this delegation of authority does mean that they re committed to stay, but we don t know what the mission is. what are they really trying to accomplish? the commanding general said this week that there will be an enduring u.s. presence there because they do expect, as general petraeus said, that guerrilla groups will pop up. the islamic state have lost the territory, but they have not disappeared. they re going to move on in iraq, trying to regain town and city after city as you will see yourself after mosul. but isis is not disappearing, and it s moving on to raqqah. as you ve seen, the americans already there. what they really need are leaders, and this does not mean a body because he has not shown that yet. leaders strong enough in iraq to effectively govern and to control these rival ethnic factions equitably. bottom line, that has not happened and there is no exit
in mosul. a city that american troops have liberated twice before. so what s to stop that from happening again? what american military officials say, the iraqi government and american officials both say that they ve set up iraq for success. they say that because they argue that life under isis was so bad that iraqis will have no choice but now to pull together and make sure that nothing like this ever happens again. but iraq doesn t seem to work that way. i ve been covering the american war in iraq for 15 years now. and the truth is, i ve seen more victories than defeats. and yet, we re still here. and this is the first time, the first time i ve been covering iraq that i ve not heard anyone talk about an exit strategy. there just doesn t seem to be a way for us to walk away from all of this.
tweets that seems to undermine what your then narrative or what the facts get developed are is going to be real problem. if you take him at his word and ten days ago he didn t know anything about this meeting and now all of this drip, drip, drip is coming out and he s learning all of this stuff. who knows whether it s the old ronald reagan. they told him about iran contra and he forgot. this is a situation where at a certain point you don t want to box yourself in and eliminate an exit strategy. michael, president trump s re-election campaign is paid $50,000 to the law firm now representing his son donald trump junior. on june 27th is when the payment was made. that s when he amended his security clearance form to reflect this undisclosed meeting. is that appropriate, that money going from the re-election campaign to a lawyer for his