Lessons Learned After Selling My Startup

August 2021 marks a milestone for me. That’s when we signed an acquisition agreement to sell Chatra, a profitable live chat platform. I co-founded it after shutting down my first startup after a six-year struggle. Chatra took me and the team six years to finish — that’s six years of learning, experimenting, sometimes failing, and ultimately winning big.
Acquisitions happen all the time. But what does it look like to go through one, putting the thing you built and nurtured up fo