Scaling to $7M a Month... And Why It Wasn’t Worth It
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we unpack how a sales recruiting business scaled from $100K per month to $7M in cash collected and why the growth ultimately wasn’t worth the stress. We explore rapid offer pivots during the pandemic, launching B2B and B2C divisions simultaneously, equity partnerships gone wrong, and the critical mistake of scaling faster than leadership and systems could handle. A candid look at why more revenue doesn’t always mean more freedom.
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About Ryan Pineda:
Ryan Pineda has been in the real estate industry since 2010 and has invested in over $100,000,000 of real estate. He has completed over 700 flips and wholesales, and he owns over 650 rental units. As an entrepreneur, he has founded seven different businesses that have generated 7-8 figures of revenue.
Ryan has amassed over 2 million followers on social media and has generated over 1 billion views online. Starting as a minor league baseball player making less than $2,000 a month, Ryan is now worth over $100 million. He shares his experiences in building wealth and believes that anyone can change their life with real estate investing.
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| 0:00.0 | Cole, so you built your business to $7 million a month and you decided it wasn't worth it. |
| 0:06.1 | What happened? |
| 0:07.4 | So basically, yeah, the short story is just kind of skip like the origin story. |
| 0:13.2 | But I was doing about 100 grand a month of my business in what it would have been 2020. |
| 0:18.0 | I was just doing sales training. |
| 0:19.3 | I kind of went from sales training to training sales teams to doing sales recruiting. Then basically, once I made that |
| 0:25.5 | flip to the offer of sales recruiting, that was in June of 2020. So this was even after the |
| 0:31.1 | pandemic, it just started. I mean, I knew I hit the offer right. I made one Facebook post, |
| 0:36.4 | 170 grand off that post. Wow. And then so from that point, I knew I hit the offer right. I made one Facebook post, $170,000 off that post. |
| 0:55.0 | Wow. And then so from that point, I went from about $100 a month, which I'd only been in business for five months, six months at that point, to $2.5 million a month and a 12-month span. That's, I've never heard of that. And so other people have done it, but that was very fast. And so, |
| 0:58.9 | and as you'll see in this story, I do a lot of things very fast. And that's kind of a learning lesson I've learned in and within itself. Then so throughout that year of scaling, I also, |
| 1:04.6 | that was, I had the B2B company was a sales recruiting. I also launched a BDC company that |
| 1:08.7 | was sales certification more for people who just wanted to get into sales. |
| 1:12.0 | So a big misconception about my companies is that I train people on B2C and then I place them in B2B. |
| 1:18.1 | It doesn't really work that way. |
| 1:19.8 | I mean, we might place 10% of the really good ones from the B to C. |
| 1:23.2 | But the majority of those people were going to help get an entry level position. |
| 1:27.3 | And then the B2B is just full cycle sales recruiting. I have like 16 sales recruiters. We do outbound. We do all the traditional recruiting stuff, right? So there's a big misconception there. But anyways, so in the beginning, though, of 2023, we kept scaling. We're scaling really, really fast. We were doing about $4 million a month. And so we |
| 1:45.7 | held that pretty much all the way through 2023 until Q4 we dropped off a little bit. But the reason |
| 1:51.4 | we dropped off is at the beginning of 2023, I essentially broke off another division of my company |
| 1:56.6 | to do equity partnerships with top clients. And that actually went really well. Every single |
| 2:02.4 | person we worked with doubled, maybe even tripled in some cases. But like the way we structured |
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