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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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"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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0:00.0 | I've been in business for 13 years I've sold nine companies my last company I sold for 46.2 million I own acquisition |
0:05.0 | which right now does about 17 million dollars a month across our portfolio I'm gonna compress 13 years of |
0:10.4 | brutal business truths and Lessons into this one video. |
0:14.0 | Brutal Business Truth Number One, sell to rich people until you have the money to sell all the poor people. |
0:20.0 | The middle is where you get killed. |
0:22.0 | Elon said, you can either do a lot of good for a small amount of people or a little good for a large amount of people. |
0:28.0 | And I will tell you personally, it's way harder to do a little good for a lot of people than a lot of people. |
0:33.5 | There is a reason that Tesla started at the top. |
0:38.0 | They started only selling to rich people. |
0:40.0 | They had the Roadster which is $250,000. |
0:42.0 | And so they sold those and then he was able to go down market |
0:44.7 | one and sell $100,000 cars to just upper echelon of society, the wealthy. |
0:49.9 | And then after that he made the X, which was a little bit cheaper than that. |
0:52.3 | And then underneath of that he made the model three, which was going to be the mass model. |
0:55.5 | Right and each time it was significantly harder to do the one before because if |
1:00.5 | if you want to sell based on value in terms of low cost, you need to build the infrastructure for huge amounts of demand because the only way that you make money selling to poor people is selling tons and tons of them. |
1:13.2 | Look at Walmart. Look at Amazon. These are businesses that were built for volume day one |
1:18.8 | and they win on efficiency. That was the whole point, Amazon, he wanted to have the best selection and the lowest prices. |
1:25.0 | Walmart. |
1:26.0 | Every day low prices. |
1:27.0 | They win on efficiencies, like they all fly coach, |
1:30.0 | they use fold-out chairs, they drink out of paper cups. They purposely breed the culture of efficiency because it's the only way that you can win if you sell to poor people. |
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