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ABOUT · THE EXIT ACADEMY & SELLERVUE

Most founders only
get one shot at this.

We're here to make sure it counts. The Exit Academy and SellerVue exist for the founder who's building something real — and wants to profit while they own it and profit again when they sell it.

THE PROBLEM WE BUILT THIS TO SOLVE

You'll sell one business in your life.
The buyer has done it a hundred times.

For most founders, an exit is a once-in-a-lifetime event. They show up to the most important transaction of their career as amateurs in a room full of professionals — brokers, M&A advisors, private-equity buyers, lenders, lawyers — all of whom do this every week.

That asymmetry is where founders lose millions. Not because they built a bad business, but because nobody told them what buyers actually pay for until the buyer was already at the table.

The Buyer

Closes many deals in a lifetime

You

One exit in a lifetime

Their Team

M&A lawyers, analysts, bankers

Your Team

You, maybe a CPA, Google

What They Know

Every leverage point in the deal

What You Know

How to run the business

Their Goal

Pay the lowest defensible number

Your Goal

Get what your years of work are worth

THE FOUNDER

Three exits.
One framework.

SellerVue and the Exit Academy weren't built from theory. They were built from the trenches — by an operator who learned the hard way, three times.

MARK BOTHA · FOUNDER

From chiropractor to operator to author.

3-time exiter. 11-book author. Builder of SellerVue.

Mark didn't set out to build software or write books. He set out to build businesses — and accidentally became the operator who could explain to other operators how to do what felt impossible the first time: actually sell what you've built.

Every framework in the Exit Academy, every metric in SellerVue, every chapter in the Built to Exit series — they all come from the same place: the lessons Mark wishes someone had handed him before his first sale.

2012

The side hustle that wasn't.

Mark starts selling on Amazon while running a chiropractic practice. Within two years, the side hustle is outearning the day job.

The first exit

Sold the practice. Went all in.

Mark sells the chiropractic practice and moves full-time into e-commerce. The first of three operator businesses he'll build — and exit.

Three exits in

The S.C.A.L.E. framework crystallizes.

After three exits, the patterns become obvious. The five drivers buyers pay premiums for. The mistakes that cost founders millions. The framework that would become Built to Exit.

SellerVue

Software for the founders coming up behind.

SellerVue launches — the operating platform commerce founders use to track landed costs, margins, and the financial health metrics that move valuation. 1,200+ founders on the platform today.

Dec 2025

Built to Exit hits Amazon.

The flagship book launches and immediately earns 5.0 stars. Ten more titles in the Built to Exit series follow.

Now

The Exit Academy.

A free community for commerce founders — the frameworks, tools, and operators preparing to do what most founders never do: actually sell what they built.

TWO COMPANIES · ONE MISSION

The software you run on.
The community you grow with.

SellerVue and the Exit Academy are designed to work together — but each does its own job.

THE PLATFORM

SellerVue

The financial operating system for commerce founders. Track true landed costs, monitor margin health at the SKU level, and see the metrics that move valuation in real time. The software that powers exit-ready businesses.

1,200+

Founders

SKU-Level

Landed Cost

THE COMMUNITY

The Exit Academy

A free community where the founders building on SellerVue — and operators well beyond it — learn the S.C.A.L.E. framework, share what's working, and prepare for the most important sale of their career. The room you wish you'd been in before your first exit.

FREE

To Join

Books Included

SellerVue gives you the numbers. The Academy teaches you what to do with them.

OUR MISSION

To help commerce founders build businesses that profit while they own them — and profit again when they're ready to sell.

Because you only get one shot at the exit. And the founders who win it are the ones who started preparing years before anyone made an offer.

HOW WE THINK

Three principles
we won't compromise on.

Build it like you're selling — whether you sell or not.

Businesses built for an eventual sale are healthier, more profitable, and more enjoyable to run even if the founder never exits. Optionality is the goal.

Real operators. Real frameworks. No gurus.

Everything we teach comes from people who have actually done it. Three exits, eleven books, 1,200+ founders on the platform — and a community of operators sharing what's working now.

Free should be free. Paid should be worth it.

The Academy is free because the playbook to build a sellable business shouldn't be gatekept. When founders pay us, it's because the value is undeniable — never because it's the only path in.

Start where you are.
Build toward what's worth selling.

Whether you're three years from exit or thirty, the work starts the same way.

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THE STORIES BEING BUILT HERE

Four founders. Four turning points.

These are the kinds of breakthroughs members are working toward inside the Academy — each one a different stage of the same journey.

THE OPERATIONAL WIN

“I finally got out of the day-to-day.”

I came in drowning. Every fire ended on my desk, and I'd convinced myself that was just what owning a business looked like. The first 90 days inside the Academy weren't about exit strategy — they were about basic operating discipline. SOPs, ownership maps, a leadership layer that actually decides things. By month four, I was off three group chats and the team didn't notice. That was the moment I knew it was working.

Andre Frank
Operational breakthrough
Exit Academy Member

THE EXIT

“We sold on our terms.”

I’d been told I had a $4M business. I never quite believed it — the buyer in my head always assumed there was a catch. The Academy made me build the company a buyer would actually pay a premium for: clean financials, documented systems, ownership that didn’t live in my inbox. When the offer came, due diligence was almost boring. We closed for a number I didn’t think was possible eighteen months earlier.

Ava Cooper
Successful Exit
Member

THE SCALE-UP

“Revenue doubled. My hours didn’t.”

I joined because I wanted to grow, not because I wanted to sell. What I didn’t expect was that building ‘as if you might sell’ was the fastest way to scale. The S.C.A.L.E. work forced me to find the actual margin in my SKUs, hire the leadership I’d been avoiding, and stop treating my business like a hobby with a payroll. Revenue is up over 80% this year. My hours are not.

Liam Thompson
Scaling Stage
Active Member

THE MINDSET SHIFT

“I stopped building a job.”

I’m not planning to sell. Maybe ever. But the way I think about my company is completely different now. Every decision goes through one filter: does this make the business more dependent on me, or less? That single question changed how I hire, how I price, how I delegate. Whether or not I ever exit, I’ve already built something worth more than what I had a year ago.