About this episode

Qayyum Rajan shares his journey of building a successful content website holdco by acquiring and merging undervalued businesses.

What if you could sell a business, get it handed back to you for $100, flip it again for a profit -and use that whole experience to build something even bigger? That's not luck. That's Qayyum Rajan. In this episode, Jaryd sits down with Qayyum -founder, developer, and holdco builder -who turned a single LinkedIn cold message into a PE exit, watched that same PE firm quietly forget his business existed, bought it back for $100, and relisted it on MicroAcquire while two buyers bid against each other in real time. But here's where it gets really interesting. After the exit, while everyone else was running away from content sites -Google had just torched their traffic with the helpful content update -Qayyum was running toward them. Buying burnt-out founders' blogs for $10K–$50K. Merging them. Building newsletters nobody had touched. Going faceless on YouTube. And quietly turning the whole thing into a cash-flowing media holdco that made back its entire investment in nine months. You'll learn how he evaluates and closes acquisitions in under 24 hours, why "domain authority and love" are his two non-negotiables , what it actually looks like to consolidate three sites under one…

People in this episode

Host: Jaryd

Guest: Qayyum Rajan

Topics covered

• content websites
• business acquisition
• media holdco
• digital marketing
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• content sites
• business acquisition
• media holdco
• Google update
• cash-flowing
• entrepreneurship
• domain authority

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, MicroAcquire, PE

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