Beyond the Hype: The New Rules of the Tech Exit in an AI-Obsessed Market

The playbook for exiting a tech company has fundamentally changed. The era of getting premium multiples just for being a "solid, profitable company with reasonable growth" is over. Today, AI has sucked all the oxygen and valuation premiums out of the room, leaving founders of standard SaaS and tech businesses asking a urgent question: Now what?

In this provocative keynote, Michael Hyatt dismantles the outdated exit playbooks and delivers a blunt assessment of what buyers and investors actually care about right now. When the tide goes out and capital consolidates into a few massive hype cycles, doing everything "right" isn't enough to trigger a lucrative exit—you need strategic re-positioning.

Session Focus:

• Why "Good" Isn't Enough: How the multiple gap widened between standard tech and AI-narrative companies, and what it takes to bridge it.
• Reframing Your Narrative: How non-AI and traditional tech companies can position their core defensibility, proprietary data, and workflows to command strategic premiums.
• The New Buyer Psychology: What private equity and strategic acquirers are secretly underwriting today versus what they tell the market.
• Tactical Action Plan: Specific moves founders must make 12 to 24 months before a liquidity event when capital markets contract.