The Shift from Business to Investing (on the Founder Podcast) Pt.2 - July ‘23 | Ep 588
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Alex Hormozi
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🗓️ 16 September 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
"Most times the focus is that people can't say no to the fast money. And by doing that, they say no to the big money (…) which is the money you got to wait for.” Today, join Alex (@AlexHormozi) as he guests on the Founder Podcast with Chris Lee to discuss the shift from business to investing and the mindset required for success. They talk about the importance of creating value and attracting potential investments. The hosts also share their criteria for the ideal company to invest in, including a strong founder who wants to scale and has big dreams. This is part 2 of the interview.
Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.
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Timestamps:
(3:45) - Identify motivation, admit weakness for improvement.
(10:38) - Self-deception in valuing businesses.
(13:00) - Focus on long-term success.
(15:08) - Shift from business to investing.
(19:46) - Different pain, different businesses.
(26:50) - Leverage existing opportunities.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Switching from business to investing is a massive change in mindset because when you're in business |
| 0:06.5 | you're used to selling on it. But when you're doing deals, it's actually about trying to get to know. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the game where we talk about how to get more customers, how to make more |
| 0:16.8 | customers and how to keep them longer and the many failures and lessons we have learned |
| 0:20.0 | along the way. I hope you enjoy and subscribe. |
| 0:22.0 | Dude, so acquisition.com, obviously a big shift from Jim Launch. I love your play right now. |
| 0:32.5 | I just create value value value value value and basically have the natural people reach out |
| 0:38.4 | and where you just have your picking. What are you focusing on with acquisition.com as far as |
| 0:43.5 | like if you had the ideal company to invest in, what would that look like? |
| 0:48.8 | So an ideal company to invest in for us is going to be doing two to ten million dollars |
| 0:53.3 | in EBITDA. They're going to have a founder that wants to scale. It's a big one. A lot of |
| 0:58.0 | some people think they want to scale but then they don't actually want to scale. You know what I mean? |
| 1:02.9 | They double or triple their income and then they're like, oh wow, we had a company that we |
| 1:07.3 | tripled the profit for and then all of a sudden the CEO was golfing every day and I was like, |
| 1:13.2 | bro, what's happened? He's like, dude, I'm making more money than everybody in my entire life. I'm like, |
| 1:16.3 | yeah, but I'm not in this for this triple. I'm in this for a 20X or 50X. That's why I want to do |
| 1:22.6 | this. We want to do big stuff and so it's like they have to have big eyes. They have to have big dreams |
| 1:27.0 | of what they want to accomplish. They have to be coachable and that's a big one because and this |
| 1:31.6 | is actually probably one of the hardest ones to find is that anyone who's achieved a certain level |
| 1:35.6 | of success has some level of confidence that they're good. But the problem is the difference between |
| 1:41.3 | and you can appreciate us. They're just going to million a month and 10 million a month is |
| 1:45.9 | oceans. I mean, it's in there like, oh, I'll just do 10 times of what I'm currently making. It's |
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