The book Scale at Speed has helped thousands of founders around the world to build value in their own businesses. I’ve personally worked with scores of businesses over the last twelve years, helping them scale up and prepare for sale. Of the seventeen deals I’ve been part of myself, one went for eight and a half times EBITDA, another for twelve, most for a premium. Every time, the buyer was paying for the same three things: growth they could predict, a management team that ran the place without the founder in the room, and a plan anybody in the building could explain.
Most founders I meet have built something good and then got stuck. They work harder every year for roughly the same result, and every decision still routes through them. I know that place well. I ran six industry-leading firms of my own, sold one to what was then the world’s fourth-largest advertising network, and made most of the available mistakes before I worked out a method.
That method became the 2Y3X programme, then the book, and now this course. Most companies on the programme double or triple in size within two years. The course gives you the same tools in the same order, for a fraction of the fee, and the aim is the same: double your revenue in two years and end up with a business worth buying, whether or not you ever sell it.
Felix VelardeAuthor, Scale at Speed (Robinson / Hachette) · Founder, 2Y3X