“We are about success to significance through selling to strategics." - Rob Follows
Rob Follows is driven to helping entrepreneurial business owners achieve maximum value when the right time comes to sell. He has a passion for helping people live their vision and wants to help other entrepreneurs achieve full value for their business.
Today, Rob has been involved with or led over a thousand M&A transactions with a total transaction value of over $100 billion. As well as being CEO and founder of STS Capital Partners, Rob is also the founding Chairman of Altruvest Charitable Services, a Canadian charity that provides training and tools to improve the performance of charitable organizations so they can give more to their causes.
In 1998, Rob received the Top 40 Under 40 leadership award for the work he had done in creating 1,000 new jobs in Canada, as well as founding and growing Altruvest Charitable Services, which has now contributed over $10 million since its establishment.
Rob is a true believer in contributing leadership. He has held various roles with Young Presidents’ Organization and World Presidents' Organization, including founding chapter chair, former Chair of the Global Deal Network, Founding Chair of the Executive Committee of the Social Enterprise Networks, serving on the networks committee of the international board of YPO for over five years and contributing to over 100 events as a YPO best of the best premier speaker.
Rob is also an extreme adventurer. When Rob summited Everest on May 24th, 2006, he became part of an elite group of people who have climbed all Seven Summits. His adventures also include skiing the North and South poles. Canoeing the Nahanni River in the Canadian Arctic. The first international descent of the Onan River on the Siberia/Mongolia border. Completing the 250-kilometer Gobi Desert Ultra Marathon and 110-mile Trans Rockies Challenge. Rob has practiced deeper meditation and mindfulness with the Tibetan monks at the Kopan Monastery in Nepal, Tiger's Nest Monastery, and other monasteries in Bhutan.
Rob's academic accomplishments include a BA with distinction from the University of Toronto; an LL.B from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University; a certificate in Not-for-profit management from the University of Toronto and Sheridan College; the Arbor Award from the University of Toronto as an international leader in corporate philanthropy; a master's degree from Oxford University's Saïd Business School in Advanced Strategy. He was also honored by being identified as one of the "Group of 175": the 175 most visionary and philanthropic living graduates in the history of the University of Toronto.
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This podcast is brought to you by the Deep Wealth Experience. In the world of mergers and acquisitions, 90% of deals fail. Of the successful deals, business owners leave millions of dollars on the deal table.
Who are we and how do we know? We're the 9-figure exit guys. We said "no" to a 7-figure offer and "yes" to a 9-figure offer two years later. In the process we increased the value of our company 10X.
During our liquidity event journey, we created a 9-step preparation process. It's the quality and depth of your preparation that increases your business value.
After our 9-figure exit we committed ourselves to leveling the playing field. The Deep Wealth Experience helps you create a launch plan in 90-days. Our solution is resilient, relentless, and gets results. Enjoy the certainty that you'll capture the maximum value on your liquidity event.
