Andrew Gazdecki

Chief Revenue Officer

Founder and CEO of Acquire.com. Acquire.com has helped 100s of startups get acquired and facilitated $500m+ in closed deals.

Founder & CEO of Acquire.com, the world’s most founder-friendly startup acquisition marketplace.

We’ve helped 2,000+ founders sell their startups, facilitated $500M+ in closed deals, and built a network of 500,000+ buyers across 100+ countries.

Before Acquire.com, I founded Bizness Apps and Altcoin.io, both acquired. Along the way, I’ve been featured in NYT, Forbes, WSJ, Inc., TechCrunch, and more.

I believe in building profitable, bootstrapped, and founder-friendly businesses and telling the stories that inspire others to do the same.

Highlights & Awards:
Inc. 500: Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies (2014, 2015)
Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30 Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur.com’s Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America
Multiple exits with $10M+ ARR bootstrapped growth

I’m here to help founders get acquired on their terms and have fun building along the way.

Acquire.com has helped 100s of startups get acquired and has facilitated $500m+ in closed deals.

Our goal is to build world’s most founder-friendly startup acquisition marketplace. We help turn founder journeys into success stories.

If your business can’t survive without you, it isn’t an asset. It’s a job. I talk to founders every day who are proud of being "in the weeds." They close every lead, ship the critical code, and manage every fire.

In their minds, they are the MVP. 

In a buyer's eyes, they are a single point of failure.

Think about it: If a buyer acquires your company and you walk away, does the engine stop running?

If you are the only one who can sell, the revenue is at risk.

If you are the only one who understands the code, the product is at risk.

Buyers aren't buying you but rather they are buying a machine that prints money. If you are a critical gear in that machine, you’ve just slashed your valuation.

The best thing you can do for your exit is to make yourself irrelevant.

Delegation isn't just about productivity; it’s about increasing your multiple. 

A "turnkey" operation that runs without the founder is worth exponentially more than one that requires 80-hour weeks from the CEO.

My challenge: Fire yourself from one department this month. Build a machine that doesn't need its creator. 

That’s how you get the exit you deserve.

PS - We see the highest multiples go to "Founder-independent" startups at acquire.com. If you’ve built a machine that runs on autopilot, there are over 500,000 buyers on our platform waiting to see it. Speak with our team today: https://lnkd.in/gNtHKz7c

Andrew Gazdecki 

Founder and CEO of Acquire.com. Acquire.com has helped 1000s of startups get acquired and facilitated $500m+ in closed deals.

Please bet on yourself and build a startup.

Arnaud Renoux

Co-founder @Scalelist

Co-Founder

All infos are just one click away: www.thescalelab.com

The Scalelab is a Lead Acquisition Agency and Consulting firm helping companies to make the first best impressions in front of their prospects by using cold email and cold LinkedIn messages.

🚀 Interested?

Today, it’s my 9 years anniversary in Singapore.

I never planned this. 👇 


December 2016, I told my parents: “1 or 2 years. Max.”

Classic lie.

Why I stayed?

Because Singapore quietly checks every box.

• Career acceleration 
• Global friendships 
• Insanely convenient 
• Asia at your doorstep 
• Built for business 
• Green, clean, structured 
• Sport is a lifestyle, not a slogan 
• Big city benefits, without the problem of a big city

You don’t fight the city. The city works with you.

I just spent a month in Europe (Brittany + Madrid).

Best moment? Landing at Changi.

That feeling of: “I’m home” is just magic

My Singapore timeline:

2017 (Jan) — Packed my life from France 
2017 (Jan–Nov) — Rocket Internet 
2017 (Nov) — Accelerasia 
2020 (Jan) — Left Accelerasia 
2020 (Feb–Apr) — EF 
2020 (May) — Started an outbound agency with Youssef 
2020 (Jun) — Met my wife 
2023 (Mar) — Started Scalelist 
2023 (May) — Got married 
2024 (Aug) — transition from Agency to SaaS
2025 (Sept) — Sold The Scalelab 
2026 (Jan) — 100% focused on Scalelist

On paper: 9 years.

In reality? Feels like a lifetime of learnings, failures, wins, friendships, and reinventions.

Deeply grateful to still be here. Genuinely excited for what’s next on this tiny island.

Sometimes you don’t choose a place. The place chooses you.

PS: The picture was taken in Pulau Ubin (small island facing Singapore) in Jan 2017.

Help B2B Sales teams find the best email addresses and mobile numbers worldwide.

Since 2015, I’ve opened every cold call with the same line.
(And yes — it still works in 2026.) 👇 

Script:

- Prospect: “Allo?”
- Me: “John?” (or whatever your prospect’s first name is)
- Prospect: “Yes.”
- Me: “This is Arnaud from Scalelist, how are you doing?”

That’s it. Simple. Human. Natural.

From there, the replies are almost always one of these:

- “Arnaud from where?”
- “Good, and you?”
- “What is this regarding?”
- “Scale—what?”
- “Is this a cold call?”

And so on…

The secret? Repetition. You don’t get better at handling these without hearing them again and again. (I’ll break that down in another post.)

But if you want to boost your results right now:

1- Get mobile numbers from Scalelist.
2- Call on WhatsApp. People pick up more often there.
3- Smile. (Yes, they hear it in your voice.)
4- Be confident.
5- If they hang up, keep smiling. Then dial again.

Cold calling isn’t dead.

It just requires consistency, confidence, and the right opener.

PS: Show you an example of how I use that script into the video below 👇

Last night at 10:27 PM. Toothbrush in mouth.
A roofing company sales leader in Florida just bought a 50k credits Scalelist plan ($549/month) 👇 

I immediately:

- Stopped brushing my teeth
- Emailed the client

Priorities.

Why?

Because I want to understand:

- what pushed him to subscribe
- what they need beyond valid emails & mobile numbers
- how their sales + marketing teams are structured
- what their 2026 (and beyond) plan looks like
- why a company outside our top 10 industries picked one of our biggest plans

During the Christmas break, I reflected on 2025.

And I realised something simple.

What gives me the most energy isn’t dashboards or features:

It’s talking to people.

Learning how Scalelist is actually used.

- What clients love.
- What frustrates them.
- What we should do differently.
- That’s the part of the job I enjoy the most.

Very excited for 2026.

PS: If you need really good emails and mobile numbers to prospect, you know where to find Scalelist.

I’m not into "productivity hacks".

But this simple one changed how I'm starting working in 2026 👇 


Use a chess clock when I work.

- One side = real, focused work
- The other = everything else (meetings, context switching, scrolling, “being busy”)

At the end of the day, I see the truth.

Did I actually get 4 hours of deep work or not?

- It’s simple.
- It’s brutal.

I love it.

I don’t even need a physical chess clock. The price of a physical one starts at 19 USD on Amazon. 

I looked for a digital one:

1- Open the App Store
2- Search “chess clock”
3- Pick any app

That’s it.

If you already do this — or plan to try it — like the post.

Ps: each clock on both side starts at 4:00 hours. My objective is to reach 0:00 on the green side every day and be super honest about it.

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