Stop Hiring For Comfort, Hire For Challenge | Ep 292
Build with Leila Hormozi
Leila Hormozi
5 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) speaks from experience about the reality of working in a fast-growth company. She explains why most people are unprepared for the chaos, responsibility, and ambiguity that come with rapid scaling. This is for anyone out there glamorizing the startup grind.
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| 0:00.0 | I just think that the root of a lot of this is the fact that people want status more than they want the responsibility. |
| 0:09.0 | They want the status of working at the company. They want the status of owning the company. |
| 0:14.0 | They want all those things. But they don't actually want the shit that comes with it. |
| 0:22.0 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:22.9 | Welcome back to Build, and today I'm just going to go on a little bit of a rant. |
| 0:26.8 | So I'm making this podcast because I feel like there's something that is not talked about |
| 0:32.2 | much at all in business. |
| 0:34.3 | And I actually think that a lot of people when they talk about it feel bad or feel like |
| 0:37.6 | it's the wrong thing to talk about. They feel like I shouldn't talk about this because it's not sexy, |
| 0:42.7 | because it sounds harsh, because whatever it may be, right? And that is the dark side of a fast growing |
| 0:47.7 | company. And this is something that I'm going to call it the dark side. I actually think it's, |
| 0:52.0 | you cannot have the good without the bad. And so I just see it as like the downside of a fast growth company. But I think that it's just |
| 0:58.4 | become so relevant to me because we have been growing really fast at acquisition.com. And that's |
| 1:03.8 | kind of my, I would say, expertise is like I'm really good at growing a company quickly. And I know |
| 1:10.3 | what it takes. I understand how to do it. |
| 1:11.9 | And I've been able to do so successfully. But that's not everybody. And I think that a lot of people |
| 1:17.2 | glamorize something that is actually very fucking difficult. And I'm running into it time, time again, |
| 1:22.6 | with people who, you know, maybe haven't worked at a fast growth company. They see what we're doing. They want to work for us. They want to be here. But they don't actually, they don't actually. They just want |
| 1:31.9 | the title. They want the accolades. They don't actually want the work that comes with it. |
| 1:35.6 | Because the reality is that fast growth doesn't feel fucking good. Fast growth feels bad. |
| 1:40.6 | It feels like chaos. And for employees and people who are joining the company, it feels like |
| 1:45.1 | you're constantly under-resourced. Like, there are always too few people and there are too |
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