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 an 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In this provocative keynote, Michael Hyatt dismantles the outdated exit playbooks and delivers a blunt assessment of what buyers and investors actually care about right now.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.