TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR STARTUP’S DESTINY
The path to a better exit.
Exit Path reveals how founders can recognize, shape, and maximize strategic acquisition opportunities — and build extraordinary outcomes.
2-MINUTE ASSESSMENT
How Exit Ready Is Your Startup?
Take a five-question assessment based on the Exit Path methodology and see how prepared your startup is to recognize, shape, and maximize a strategic acquisition opportunity.
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Touraj Parang is an entrepreneur, operator, investor, advisor, and author.
For over more than two decades in Silicon Valley, he has worked with startups from nearly every side of a strategic transaction—as a founder, executive, corporate development leader, investor, attorney, advisor, and buyer.
His work focuses on helping founders build strategic options before they need them.
About Touraj
Endorsements
“This is the most useful book I’ve ever read on how to think about startup exits. Touraj Parang makes a compelling case for entrepreneurs and investors to talk early and openly about options for acquisition.”
— Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN and host of the TED podcast WorkLife
“The best founders are mission-driven and motivated more by impact than an exit. But the final mile cannot be traversed by the unprepared. In this book, Touraj sheds a rare spotlight on how to manage one of the most important decisions in a founder’s career.”
— Scott Belsky, Founder of Behance (sold to Adobe), Author of The Messy Middle
“Exit Path is a must-read primer for everyone in the startup ecosystem. It elegantly blends Touraj's experience with illustrative case studies of notable M&A transactions, complemented by insights from philosophy, psychology, and behavioral economics.”
— Lily Sarafan, cofounder and executive chair of TheKey; board member at Stanford University, Instacart, and Thumbtack
“The happy ending for every startup story includes an IPO or acquisition. In Exit Path, Touraj provides an end-to-end blueprint on how great businesses achieve great exits”
— Chris Yeh, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Alliance and Blitzscaling; founding partner of Blitzscaling Ventures