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Matt Raad · January 29, 2025

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Interview with Matt Raad

The Double Exit – Fastlane Founders with Matt Raad

Podcast: Fastlane Founders and Legacy with Jason Barnard: Personal Branding, AI Strategies, and SEO Insights for Visionary CEOs

January 29, 2025

Matt Raad talks with Jason Barnard about the double exit. Building Digital Assets with Smart Exits! Matt Raad, CEO of eBusiness Institute and Website Investor, reveals proven strategies for acquiring, growing, and selling websites. Drawing from 30 years of experience in buying…

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Key topicsNo Followers, No Problem: How Millennials Are Building A Successful Future-Proof IncomeMost online income advice tells millennials the same thing: start a YouTube channel, grow an audience, post every day, build a personal brand. For a lot of people, that advice is exhausting before it even begins. Matt Raad offers a fundamentally different model, one where you don't need followers, a camera, or a content calendar to build real online income. Drawing on decades of buying and growing websites that already have traffic and revenue, he talks about why buying digital assets is the smarter, quieter alternative to the creator grind, and why more millennials who hate the idea of "going viral" are building serious cash flow without ever putting themselves on camera. Digital real estate is the asset class priced out millennials can still enter Real estate has become the wealth-building default, but for younger investors the numbers often do not stack up without huge debt and years of pressure. Matt introduces a different asset lens: websites and online businesses can be bought, improved, monetised, and sold without needing a million-dollar mortgage. Because he and Liz have spent 18 years applying business renovation principles to websites, he can explain the mechanics in plain language rather than hype. This gives investing and FIRE audiences a fresh conversation about ownership when property feels increasingly out of reach. The new burnout is earning good money and still feeling trapped Many burnt-out professionals are not failing financially on paper, yet they still cannot see a path to freedom because the mortgage, rent, commute, childcare, and career pressure consume everything they earn. Matt sees this pattern in millennials, vets, engineers, FIFO workers, teachers, and professionals who look successful but feel boxed in. He can speak to the moment when someone realises a pay rise will not solve the deeper problem because they still do not own the engine producing their income. That makes this a strong fit for lifestyle, career-change, and freedom-focused podcasts. View all topics →

About Matt Raad

Matt Raad, podcast guest

Digital Investor and Educator on Building Online Income for Life on Your Terms

30 Years Entrepreneur & business investorSince 2008 Website investing pioneer100–800 Live & online event audienceseBusiness Institute CEO & Co-Founder

Matt Raad is a 30-year entrepreneur, digital investor, and CEO & Co-Founder of eBusiness Institute, Australia’s leading digital skills training organisation. After starting his career as a zoologist studying kangaroos in the Australian outback, Matt rejected the conventional path and built wealth with his wife Liz by buying, growing, and selling businesses instead of relying on property, a corporate career, or the traditional wealth playbook.

Eighteen years ago, Matt and Liz took that same business-buying approach online and became pioneers in buying, renovating, and selling websites as digital real estate. Today, Matt is one of the leading voices helping millennials, burnt-out professionals, and aspiring entrepreneurs build AI-leveraged digital businesses they own, control, and can one day sell as 6–7 figure assets.

Matt’s message is especially timely for a generation that has been sold a path that no longer works: expensive degrees, insecure careers, unaffordable property, and income that disappears the moment they stop working. Through eBusiness Institute and the Digital Investors Podcast, he teaches people how to earn while they learn, use practical digital and AI skills, create cashflow from home, and build real future security through ownership.

A regular guest on major business and wealth podcasts including Rich Dad Radio, Entrepreneurs on Fire, and RASK, Matt brings a rare mix of contrarian thinking, practical strategy, and lived experience.

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About this episode

Matt Raadtalks with Jason Barnard about the double exit.

Building Digital Assets with Smart Exits! Matt Raad, CEO of eBusiness Institute and Website Investor, reveals proven strategies for acquiring, growing, and selling websites. Drawing from 30 years of experience in buying and selling companies worth up to $20 million, Matt shares his double exit approach, combining business asset sales with seamless personal brand transitions. Learn how to identify undervalued digital properties, transform them into profitable assets, and execute successful exits while preserving brand value. This episode shows entrepreneurs how to build valuable online portfolios and master the art of transitioning personal brand-based businesses to new ownership.

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This episode was recorded live on video January 28th 2025

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