Michael Fletcher on What They Don't Tell You About Entrepreneurship

Five decades of building companies, two exits worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and a lot of hard lessons in between.

Michael Fletcher is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Pivot Oasis who has spent his career founding, buying, building and selling companies. In this conversation with host Jason Zickerman, Michael pulls back the curtain on what building a business actually looks like — the capitalization mistakes, the partner decisions that can make or break you, and what it really means to lose control of something you built and come back stronger.

He also talks about the mentors who changed everything, why surrounding yourself with the right people is one of the few things in entrepreneurship completely within your control, and what it took to build a successful business without losing his family along the way.