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The Tai Lopez Show

The Ideal Business Model You Should Look For

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

Business

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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“Be careful about business models where your costs grow with your revenue” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Everyone is looking for the ideal business model. They’re looking to discover the perfect model to bring ever increasing revenue. Today, I’m talking about two common business models, and which I prefer. The two models: Netflix and Spotify. Netflix buys out agreements with content creators, whereas Spotify pays royalties dependent on number listens. Therefore, as Spotify’s income increases, so too does their cost. But as Netflix’s income increases, their costs stay the same, or even decrease. This is one of the most important factors to look at when analyzing a potential business. Will cost increase as revenue increases, or will cost stay the same or even decrease? Look for business models where cost decreases as revenue increases. “The ideal business is one where you sell ever increasing units at an ever decreasing cost” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Points to Keep In Mind Be careful about business models where your costs grow with your revenue Look for a way for cost to decrease as income increases The ideal business is one where you sell ever increasing units at an ever decreasing cost When you start a business, be careful about signing licensing and royalty agreements where your cost will increase with increased revenue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

He said, Ty, the ideal business is one where you sell ever-increasing units at ever-decreasing costs.

0:06.6

Out of the ashes you will rise. If you feel sad, lost, depressed, finances are in the gutter.

0:12.4

Social life, you're lonely. Out of the ashes, you will rise.

0:18.4

You're in my garage. Invest in yourself. Always be curious. Don't be a cynic.

0:24.8

Sleeping on a couch in a mobile home with only $47 in my bank account.

0:30.9

When everything's burnt to the ground, when your sad loss is depressed, and everything's at

0:35.3

rock bottom, you get to rebuild the exact and precise way you want the damn thing rebuilt.

0:42.2

Health, wealth, love, happiness, each of these four gold.

0:47.8

In case you missed the last episode, make sure you go back and check it out.

0:50.9

Here's what went down. You and I are probably touching some of Bill Gates money right now in your bank.

0:55.6

It's recirculating throughout the world.

1:00.0

Coming up today. So they pay a million bucks once for the right to play a replay movie over and over and over.

1:14.0

Would you rather own Spotify or Netflix? I'm going to give you my opinion,

1:18.7

our little entrepreneur lesson here. Here's why I'd rather own Netflix.

1:23.5

Now they're both great businesses, okay? It'd be great to own either one,

1:27.2

but here's why I like Netflix better. Spotify has a business model that they pay a percentage of

1:32.7

their profits to the artists, which is actually great because it's helping out artists.

1:37.4

But from a business standpoint, the larger they grow, their costs go with them. Let's say they give

1:41.2

70% in cost. The bigger they get, the more their costs grow. Netflix, on the other hand, they buy

1:47.5

from what I understand their movies outright. So they pay a million bucks once for the right to

1:51.4

play a replay movie over and over and over. So as they grow and they just grew to a hundred million

1:56.5

people paying them $10 a month. That's a billion dollars. Their costs shrink as their revenue goes up.

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