Insight
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An honest read on your business
Valuation, scalability, and the gaps no one's named for you yet.
FNDRS ExitSummit™ · Huntington Beach · 2026
Finding Financial Freedom
A private, three-day working room for founders doing $3M to $30M — built to surface the gaps holding your business in "no man's land," map the path to a premium exit, and equip you to build, sell, and secure on your terms.
Build a business that pays you well, runs without you,
and sells for what it's worth.
and sells for what it's worth.
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— What You'll Walk Away With
Three days that change
what the business is worth
Most founders doing $3M to $30M are stuck in what we call "no man's land" — too big to use small-business answers yet not structured enough for institutional capital. Over the next three days we'll focus on instilling four insights that support founders on their journey to be exit-ready.
Insight
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Cash-flow freedom
The economics of a business that actually pays you, not one that just employs you.
Insight
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Time freedom
Operational decoupling, so the business runs without your hands on every decision.
Insight
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The exit map
A clear path from where you are to a premium exit, and the strategy to keep what you build.
— The FNDRS System
From where you are
From where you are
to where the business gets sold
By the end of the event, you'll know exactly where you are — and what the next twelve months need to look like.
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— Step 1 · Confront what's actually true
Gaps
You can't fix what you haven't measured. Most founders are flying on instinct, not numbers.
We open with the numbers most founders have never properly looked at — how acquirers actually value a business, and what the data says about who gets to sell and at what price. You'll see your company the way a buyer would, probably for the first time, and find out where it doesn't yet hold up.
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— Step 2 · The path, made unmistakable
Maps
Once you know the gap, the system has to be specific enough to close it.
This is the curriculum. What actually drives value, what's quietly capping it, and the sequence that gets a business from where it is to ready-to-sell. You'll know which part of that sequence you're in, and what the next twelve months have to look like.
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— Step 3 · From knowing to executing
Acceleration
Awareness is the first step. Proximity to advisors, systems, and operators is what compounds it.
This is where it turns into work. How to lead through a sale, what happens after one, and the operational decisions that make a business an asset rather than a job. You leave with a 90-day plan, a clear next step, and a room of founders who can hold you to both.
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— Step 4 · The full lifecycle
Exit Ramp
The exit isn't the finish line. It's the start of the wealth conversation.
The sale isn't the end of the story. Tax, estate, insurance, and how the money actually gets put to work afterward — so the freedom you built holds beyond a single transaction and across the people who come after you.
— Inside the Room
Three days, built on purpose
Every hour is built to move you from awareness to system to action — aspirational where it should be, surgical where it has to be.
— Day 1
The Disruption
The state of the market. How acquirers actually price a business. And a guided walk through your own numbers, the way someone considering buying you would do it.
— Day 2
The System
What drives a company's value, what holds it back, and how a founder actually gets to a sale. Plus macro context from Mark Moss and case studies from people who've done it.
— Day 3
The Execution
How to lead through a sale and what happens on the other side of one. The work that makes a company sellable in the first place. You leave with a 90-day plan and a room of founders who've taken it seriously.
— Our Speakers
Operators who've built, scaled,
Operators who've built, scaled,
and sold
No professional keynoters. Every speaker on this stage has run the playbook themselves — and is here to compress what took them a decade into three days.
— Featured Speaker
Stephen Scoggins
Founder, The Journey Principles Institute
Founder of The Journey Principles Institute and Custom Home Exteriors, creator of the Transform U Frame, and a recognized voice in life and business strategy. After overcoming homelessness, dyslexia, and ADHD, Scoggins built and scaled multiple businesses — and now spends his time helping operators do the same with the inner game intact.
— Featured Speaker
Mark Moss
Investor, Host of The Mark Moss Show
Full-time investor, entrepreneur, and educator with 25+ years across markets. Host of The Mark Moss Show and Market Disruptors — teaching financial sovereignty, sound money, and the macro forces that decide where wealth gets built next. The macro context every founder needs before they think about an exit.
From the FNDRS Stage
Troy Hoffman
Serial Entrepreneur · Business Architect
Nick Long
Exit Advisor · PE Accelerator
Shawn Livermore
Software Architect · AI Strategist
John Pennington
Co-Founder, Bridge Investment Group
Bridger Pennington
Co-Founder, Fund Launch
Tom Wheelwright
CEO, WealthAbility · Author of Tax-Free Wealth
Brodie Barnes
Principal & Financial Advisor, CapTrust
Scott Stepanik
Head of M&A, FNDRS · Managing Partner, Calibor
Scott Jackson
Serial Entrepreneur · $700M+ in Exits
Russ Prag
FNDRS Faculty · Director of Acquisitions
Daven Michaels
Serial Entrepreneur · CEO, 123Employee & Michaels Press
Chris Dyer
Serial Entrepreneur · Olympic Coach
Russ Perry
Founder, Design Pickle
Scott Empringham
AI Industry Leader · Global Speaker
Dr. David Boyd
Physician & Entrepreneur
Joe Marinucci
CEO, Digital Media Solutions
Scott DeLong
Leadership Coach · Exit Advisor
Jeff Klubeck
World-Class Coach · Serial Entrepreneur
Steve Krebs
Master Coach · Consultant
+ More
to be announced
to be announced
Final lineup confirmed closer to event
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Final speaker lineup to be confirmed closer to the event.
— Reserve Your Seat
Three ways to attend
The room is qualified — every founder admitted is in the $3M–$30M range or clearly approaching it.
— Tier 1
General
For founders ready to do the work.
$997
Early Bird Pricing
- 3 full days of sessions
- Lunch & dinner included
- FNDRS merchandise
- Fully hosted activities
- Access to the founder network
Most Chosen
— Tier 2
VIP
Closer access. Smaller-room conversations. Lunch with the speakers.
$1,997
Early Bird Pricing
- Everything in General
- Lunch with Troy Hoffman
- Lunch with a VIP speaker
- Front-row reserved seating
- VIP welcome dinner
— Tier 3
Member
For active FNDRS members. Code required.
Members only
Code
Required
Required
- Everything in General
- Lunch with a VIP speaker
- Breakout with VIP speaker
- 1 guest admission included
- Member-only debrief
— The Venue
Pasea Hotel & Spa
21080 CA-1, Huntington Beach, CA 92648
Oceanfront in Huntington Beach. Far enough from your desk to think clearly, close enough to home to come ready. The kind of room where founders actually do the work — and the kind of view that reminds you why the work matters.
Watch
— FNDRS Mission 2026
Scale. Sell. Secure.
Four events, one continuous arc. Each one takes the founder further down the same path — from running the business, to selling it well, to keeping what the sale created.
— Q1 · 2026
Planning the Peaks
Park City · UT
January 14 – 17
— Q2 · 2026
From Inside Out
Tulum · MX
April 1 – 3
— Q3 · 2026
Finding Financial Freedom
Huntington Beach · CA
June 30 – July 2
— Q4 · 2026
Life By Design
Palm Springs · CA
October 21 – 23
— Know Before You Go
Questions, answered
What exactly is FNDRS ExitSummit™? +
ExitSummit™ is a three-day working room for founder-led businesses in the $3M to $30M range — what we call "no man's land." Too far past Main Street, not yet structured for institutional capital. Across three days you'll move through the FNDRS system: Gaps (Day 1), Maps (Day 2), and Acceleration (Day 3). It's not a conference and it's not a retreat. It's the room where the next twelve months of your business get architected.
Who should attend? +
Founders and owner-operators doing $3M to $30M in revenue — profitable, growing, and wondering what the exit could actually look like. If the business doesn't really run without you, if you've outgrown small-business answers, or if you're starting to think about positioning for a premium sale in the next one to five years, this is built for you. This isn't for early-stage or pre-revenue founders.
What will I actually learn? +
You'll leave with a buyer's-eye read on your business — valuation, scaling constraints, and the specific gaps holding you back. You'll know exactly where you sit in the FNDRS pathway and what the next stage requires. You'll have a 90-day plan against your highest-leverage gap, and the peer network to hold you to it. The frameworks are the same ones FNDRS uses with members year-round.
How is this different from other business events? +
Most events sell information. This one sells alignment — and a system. The room is qualified, not paid: every founder in it is in the $3M–$30M range with real stakes. The speakers are working operators who've transacted, not professional keynoters. And every session ladders back to one progression — Gaps to Maps to Acceleration — so by Day 3 you're not inspired, you're equipped.
What's the refund policy? +
Tickets are non-refundable but transferable up to 30 days before the event. If something comes up, you can send another qualifying founder in your seat. Reach out to the team and we'll handle it.
— Last call
You've read enough.
You've read enough.
Now do the work.
Three days in Huntington Beach. The numbers, the system, the room. If you're ready to stop running the business and start building one that can be sold, reserve your seat before Early Bird pricing closes.
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"Awareness is the first step
toward freedom."
toward freedom."