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Jul 2024
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13 Years of Brutally Honest Business Adv...

ALEX HORMOZI
About this episode

"There’s a reason Tesla started at the top." In this episode, Alex (@AlexHormozi) compresses his most brutally honest advice from 13 years of business. These come from experiences selling 9 companies and scaling the Acquisition.com portfolio to $250M+ in annual revenue. You’ll get insights on sales, pricing, business models, people, and the infinite game of entrepreneurship.

Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.

Timestamps:

(00:00:13) Sell to rich people until you have the money to sell to everyone else.

(00:08:57) You lack priorities, not information.

(00:22:56) Things are hard because your team isn’t as good as you think they are. Your standards are too low.

(00:26:57) Lots of rules mean you have dumb people.

(00:36:25) If you want to get bigger, get better.

(00:43:50) You work all day but you can’t get anything done because you allow too many things that don’t matter to distract you. Sometimes you have to let the fires burn.

(00:52:18) A brand takes a long time to build but is the most valuable thing you can own.

(01:02:29) You need to know the inputs and outputs of your money-making system.

(01:10:17) Stop looking for hacks.

(01:17:39) The best people cost more but make way more than they cost.

(01:22:26) The big, obvious thing is the problem, not the hundred other things.


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