From Bankruptcy to Billions: How Eddie Wilson Built & Sold 76 Companies in One Year
October 15, 2025
From Exit Strategy to Impact: How Business Success Can Drive Global Change
In this enlightening episode, host Larry speaks with Eddie Wilson, known as the "King of Exits" and founder of Impact Others, about scaling businesses for successful exits and leveraging business success to create lasting social impact. Eddie shares his journey from owning and exiting over 100 companies to building a global philanthropic organization operating in 103 countries.
Explore Eddie's journey from business success to meaningful impact through his foundation Impact Others, now operating in over 100 countries and helping thousands of children
What You'll Learn:
What You'll Learn:
- How to build businesses with exit strategies in mind, including maximizing EBITDA multiples for 7-29x returns
- The Empire Operating System's five pillars for scaling multiple businesses simultaneously: leadership, operations, sales/marketing, personnel, and finance
- Why understanding the 5 phases of business (startup, perseverance, viability, scale, succession) is crucial for growth
- How to transform from data-driven business analysis to purpose-driven leadership
- The "Boulder Theory" approach to problem-solving: identifying and tackling the biggest impact issues first
- How to create sustainable philanthropic models by building self-supporting business ecosystems within charitable operations
- The three-bucket framework for managing people: understanding if team members are resistant, untrained, or incompetent
- Why tying business outcomes to purpose helps break through growth ceilings and achieve bigger goals
- How to leverage business success to create sustainable social impact through strategic philanthropic ventures
- The importance of measuring outputs and creating battle plans versus traditional business plans for real-world success
Eddie Wilson is a renowned business leader and serial entrepreneur known as "The King of Exits," having owned over 125 companies and successfully exited more than 100 businesses, including a billion-dollar exit. As the creator of the Empire Operating System, now used by over 3,000 companies globally, Wilson has pioneered systematic approaches to business scaling and strategic exits. With a background in real estate and entrepreneurship spanning three generations, he has leveraged his business acumen into a significant philanthropic impact through Impact Others, an organization operating in 103 countries that builds orphanages, feeding centers, and sustainable businesses. In this episode, Wilson shares invaluable insights on his unique approach to business scaling, strategic exits, and purpose-driven entrepreneurship, while revealing how his systematic methodology has enabled him to manage multiple enterprises simultaneously. His work bridging profitable business operations with meaningful social impact demonstrates how entrepreneurs can achieve substantial financial success while creating lasting positive change in the world.
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