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My First Million

5 Live Callers Get Startup Advice from Hormozi & Shaan

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Want the cheat-sheet to turn your startup into a unicorn? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/kgh Episode 733: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Alex Hormozi ( https://x.com/alexhormozi ) take questions from callers LIVE. $100M Money Models, launches at a live virtual event Saturday August 16th. Register free: https://register.acq.com — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (0:16) Caller #1 (12:55) Caller #2 (21:52) Caller #3 (31:20) Caller #4 — Links: • Acquisition - https://www.acquisition.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0

I want to try something different.

0:01.1

Okay.

0:01.5

It's the Hormozi hotline.

0:02.7

Take five listeners out of the crowd, have them call in.

0:05.5

Okay.

0:05.8

Tell us about their business.

0:06.5

Tell us a business problem. Cool. So this is the Hormozie hotline. Okay. Let's do it. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off. Okay, we got flow here.

0:03.6

Flow, I want you to give us the, what's the name of your business and give us the one. Like no days off on a road. Let's travel. Never looking back. Okay, we got Flo here.

0:21.4

Flo, I want you to give us the, what's the name of your business and give us the one minute description of what you do? Give us a sense of where you're at, revenue-wise. And then we're going to get to what's your biggest business problem and we're going to try to help you out here in a couple of minutes. So, like I said, I'm Flo. I live in London, I own a company called Wentworth Protection.

0:19.7

And so what we do is we install security bollard on people's driveways. And now if you don't know what that is basically like a metal pole that you put on your driveways that's got your car from getting stolen. I started this business as a side hustle in January, 2024, so we're now like a year and a half in.

0:57.4

It's just me and my best mate.

0:59.0

We both still do this as a side hustle.

1:01.5

We've got a couple of inflation guys.

1:04.0

First year, we did just shy, 250K Rev.

1:07.2

This year we're probably going to do 500.

1:10.1

And kind of the biggest issue we're having right now

1:12.3

is content the problem you solve is people in the UK are getting their car stolen and there's

1:18.6

some you put a pole in the driveway that prevents that that's correct yeah car theft is just

1:24.2

through the roof in in the UK especially around London so this poll comes up your driveway. And it means even if someone gets into your car, they just actually can't drive it away. Okay, got it. So you get two to 50K, you're one, 500, you're on pace for 500K this year. And give us the quick and dirty on how are you getting those customers today? Because you said it's a side hustle. So where are you getting business? Yeah, yeah. The first three months is basically purely door to door. Saturdays and Sundays just knocking on boards, which, by the way, in the UK, people find that really, really strange. Yeah. But now it's about kind of a 50-50 mix between Google ads, just like search and mainly SEO. So we get loads of organic leads coming in as well

2:02.3

and then a little bit of referral in there okay all right how much do the polls cost and so average

2:07.2

tickets about thousand bucks okay so what's so what's your uh what's cost you to install uh we've gone

2:13.8

roughly 50 50 percent margin so like paying the inflation guys and buying the units,

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