There was a point where I felt resentful of my team.

Like, I did all the work.

Why do I have all these people here?

Like, I was hiring people.

I was making less money.

And I took a really hard look at myself and at the team.

And the hardest thing to realize was that it was an attribute of our culture that I myself had created, which was there was not a high degree of accountability.

Music had created, which was there was not a high degree of accountability. How do you create an unshakable business?

I crossed $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. 50% of businesses

fail in their first two years. So today, I'm going to teach you how to not be one of them.

So what is it? What is the reason that all of these businesses are failing? If you look up the reasons

that most businesses fail, it is not that they fail from the outside in, is that they fail from the

inside out. What does that mean? It means that the inside of the business is not strong enough

to accommodate the demand that is put on the business. Most leaders have no idea how to hold their

team accountable. So they hire a

bunch of people, which maybe you've done. And then they're like, these people suck, which is why so many

of them go out of business from literally not having this one skill. And that is accountability.

So what is accountability? It is the quality or state of being responsible to one's obligations.

Holding someone accountable means reinforcing them. It is the quality or state of being responsible to one's obligations.

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