Chirs Duty

Chris has been a business broker for the past 19 years, representing hundreds of sellers, and having earned the accreditations of Merger & Acquisition Master Intermediary, Certified Business Intermediary and Certified Mergers & Acquisitions Professional. Chris also created and sold his first e-commerce businesses in 2003, and has since purchased an affiliate marketing site, created multiple content sites and an Amazon FBA business. He joined Quiet Light to merge these two passions and help online business owners reach their exit goals.

Chris has always been an entrepreneur at heart. In his early teens, he earned his spending money by bootlegging CDs with his side-by-side burner and selling them to classmates. His first internet start-up was at age 15, reselling electronics on Ebay, where, as an early adopter, he had a 4 digit password until Ebay forced him to update in 2015. After college, Chris helped start various online businesses, including an SEO agency, online real-estate brokerage, and flash sale website before entering the VC-backed high-growth start-up world. There, he honed his skills in mobile product management at RetailMeNot (IPO 2013) before moving on to leadership and executive roles at Mobile Travel Technologies in London (Sold to Travelport in 2015) and Student.com in Shanghai, China. During a year-long sabbatical in 2016, Chris connected with a friend that had launched a successful Kickstarter campaign and needed help selling on Amazon. He was immediately taken by the opportunity and, after helping his friend, became one of the founding team members of 101 Commerce, the first Amazon aggregator. Through 101 Commerce and another aggregator, Chris helped acquire and operate 10+ FBA businesses, many were bought through Quiet Light. In 2021, Chris was offered to lead M&A at an up-and-coming aggregator when he reached out to solicit advice from Joe Valley. By the end of that call, Joe had convinced Chris to, instead, join Quiet Light as an advisor. The brightest part of his acquisition experience was working with the entrepreneurs and sharing their joy of accomplishment on closing day. Chris looks forward to sharing that moment many times over from a new perspective.

Chuck built his first profitable website in 1996 at 18 years old. In college, he studied computer software engineering which taught him the skills to analyze search results and implement strategies that took advantage of the observations he made. Throughout his career of developing, managing, consulting, and investing in internet-based companies, Chuck has developed a keen ability to spot opportunities and develop strategies that lead to growth and profitability. After seeing an opportunity to leverage his time and money by acquiring under-performing sites, he started investing exclusively in web based assets and has bought and sold companies ranging in size from as little as a few hundred dollars to seven figures. Seeing a lack of quality information regarding the acquisition of online assets, Chuck became one of the first people to speak at national conferences on the subject and is now regarded as one of the foremost experts on the topic. Chuck frequently travels in the United States and around the world to speak on the subject. Having successfully exited a large deal that took up the majority of his time, and after years of recruiting, Chuck came to Quiet Light Brokerage looking to further leverage his experience and expertise and assist other business owners in entering and exiting their online businesses. With extensive knowledge in Search Engine Optimization strategies and Conversion Rate Optimization in addition to his experiences in buying and selling numerous businesses himself, he is often able to help get business owners in a better position to sell at a higher value. As a result, his advice to business owners is sometimes to wait before selling in order to maximize the value of their business.

Ethan is a serial entrepreneur and has successfully built numerous multi-million dollar companies. He has sold and acquired a number of companies, one of which appeared on Shark Tank, and served as a broker for both buyers and sellers transactions’. Ethan’s true business passion is in the physical product ecommerce space. His industry experience in this realm covers almost everything you can imagine. His background includes operating companies both on and off Amazon, holding inventory and dropshipping, manufacturing overseas and in the U.S., and selling to the U.S. and foreign customers. Aside from serving as an advisor with the Quiet Light team and managing his own businesses, you’ll probably find Ethan hiking up a random mountain, getting a bit competitive playing a sport, or laughing with his family and friends.

Along with being one of the first online business brokerages to exist, we’re also the most experienced. From our founder to our newest team member, every advisor at Quiet Light Brokerage has built, bought, or sold an online business. Most of us have done all three. The Quiet Light valuation process isn’t generic or machine-generated — because your business’ market value isn’t a single static number. The real value of your business depends on a ton of different factors. On top of considering your financials, we take your unique systems, processes, and differentiators into account. That’s how we give your business the comprehensive valuation it deserves, instead of slapping an auto-generated price on the company you’ve worked hard to build. When you choose to sell with Quiet Light, you’ll know you’re exiting at the right time, for a fair price, with the confidence to carry you into your next venture.

Ryan Condie has started 8 businesses, bought 4, and sold 2. He owns a lead generation software company, an FBA business, and is the host of the “Let’s Buy a Business” podcast. In 2014, he started a candy factory from scratch which can now be found in Sam’s Club, Walgreens, and thousands of other stores. Ryan also spent 8 years in software sales at several tech unicorns but his passion lies with online businesses and helping sellers achieve life-changing events through their business exits.