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. number one is public markets, you can look at companies that do similar things even though they re much bigger companies, there s normally a multiple on revenue and there s underlying data. the second thing you can do is you can look at how much cash the business is throwing off. so what s the ebitda, how much money will it generate over the next couple of years, what s the growth rate of the business, and those are all variables that give you predictability into what the true value of the business s so for me i think
you to think in new ways. 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. thank you so much. thank you! so we re a go? yes! we got a yes! what does that mean for purchasing? purchase. let s do this. got it. book the flights! hai! si! si! ya! ya! ya! what does that mean for us? we can get stuff. what s it mean for shipping? ship the goods. you re a go! you got the green light. that means go! oh, yeah. start saying yes to your company s best ideas. we re gonna hit our launch date! (scream) thank you! goodbye! let us help with money and know-how, so you can get business done. american express open.
survive the moments. that the resentment that fuels the insurgency continues to simmer under the rubble only to reuprety raert that s what s happened here time and time again. including in mosul. a city that american troops have libertied twice before what s to stop that from happening again? will when 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 are still here. and this is the first time the first time i ve been covering iraq and not heard he anyone talk about an exit strategy. there doesn t seem to be a way
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 strategy. richard? it sounds like a mission without an end. exactly. suddenly we have an enduring presence in iraq while everyone s been focused on the russian scandal, we ve been committed to a forever war. thanks, andrea. you don t run into too many americans working anywhere near the front lines in mosul, especially wearing civilian clothes. so when we came across one, we had to find out what he was doing there. take cover. take cover. pete reed has had some very
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 strategy. richard? it sounds like a mission without an end. exactly. suddenly we have an enduring presence in iraq while everyone s been focused on the russian skacandal, we ve been committed to a forever war. thanks, andrea. you don t run into too many americans working anywhere near the front lines in mosul, especially wearing civilian clothes. so when we came across one, we had to find out what he was doing there. take cover. take cover. pete reed has had some very close calls in mosul, and he s not here on orders. he just showed up and started treating injured iraqis on the front lines. why? because no one else was doing it. how many patients have you treated? between 7,010,000. a former marine from new jersey saving lives in the middle of a war zone.