Teams that aim for perfection and aim to hide things from each other will always move more

slowly and they will always be more judgmental of one another and there will always be less trust.

How do you create an unshakable business? I cross $100 million in net worth by the age of 28.

Now I'm growing acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. In this podcast, I share the lessons I've learned in scaling big businesses and helping our portfolio companies do the same.

Buckle up and let's build. What I want to talk about today is how perfectionism ultimately can cost you your business, how I experience this, and some tips that I have in terms of how you can change your beliefs so that this doesn't happen to you. So I was talking to a founder last

week, and he was somebody that applied for Acquisition.com, and he had a really successful business.

And I'm not going to name names or talk about the business itself, but this person had basically

with brute force gotten their business to about about 15 million a year. And that business

was one that was very admirable. And obviously 15 million a year is like no joke. But the issue is

is that oftentimes what we do to get our business to one level is what prevents us from getting

the business to another level. And people talk about this all the time, but I don't feel like they

break it down. It's like, everyone's like, oh, I get it. What didn't get me here isn't going to get me there or what got

me here isn't going to get me there, but they don't break down what that actually means. And

oftentimes what it is is that perfectionism and standards of excellence to a degree are what get

people to, you know, multiple eight figures, but they're would prevent people from getting to nine figures. And what that is is that oftentimes is that we have a huge level of control over our businesses.

And guys, I know this because this is what I did with my business.

I was able to get our business to $30 million a year by holding on incredibly tightly.

But in order to get past $30 million, I had to learn how to let go.

And I see this come off in a lot of

different behaviors and mostly around perfectionism. And so what I realized I was talking to that founder

is I felt like that person almost had too many limiting beliefs for us to be able to work with that

person. And the reason for that was because the beliefs that person held around standards of

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