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Dave Blundin speaks with Eli Schwarz for a new kind of story on this show: the complete startup lifecycle, start to finish. Eli joined Jornaya through Venture for America, helped grow it, sold it to Verisk for $125 million, all cash, with no earnout, and then Verisk turned around and asked him to be their acquirer. With zero M&A experience, he led the deals that brought in Contact State and Infutor, a company twice the size of Jornaya. They dig into why retention is so difficult post-exit,…