Benny L. Walk
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Benny L. Walk
@blwalkii
Advocate-For-Hire: @IncProsBiz | Senior Counsel: https://t.co/9wXy4JxzDA

No investor has any right to push you to get acquired if you don't want to. The company is your project, not theirs.

No investor has any right to push you to get acquired if you don't want to. The company is your project, not theirs.





every single person in prof services biz i talk to is seeing this. on avg every 3 prospect comes to me with AI analysis and solutions that are just plain wrong. i think we will have this for next 2-3 years until the market figures out how to adjust for this and/or avg joe figures out how to better use AI


Number one theme from SMBash 2026 for me: it is objectively harder to get deals done, and deal quality is going down. To paraphrase Jacob Hall: The self-funded search playbook of 2019-2021 no longer works.





