What it’s like to sell a company to your former employer

When he moved from Los Angeles to New York City, he made several million dollars. Trading the southern California surf scene for a 35th-floor office in Manhattan’s Financial District, founder Brendan Gahan marked the beginning of a new phase for his homebrew marketing agency. In 2015, his two-year-old marketing company Epic Signal began operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of Mekanism, the New York ad agency whose high-profile client list includes Starbucks and the White House. This was a reunion as much as it was an acquisition — as a former Mekanism employee of several years, Gahan and Mekanism CEO Jason…
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