The Fastest Way to Grow a Business Without Working More

0:00Most entrepreneurs can't let go. So, it's a control thing. It's a 100% a control thing. It's kind of like if you think about everything in life, it's always about dualities. Like it's it's not one thing. People are like, "Oh, you got to be motivated." Yeah, and you also need to learn how to recharge. So, it's not like buying back your time is one part understanding how to let go and in the same sentence

0:21knowing what to not let go of, right? Like to to keep control of cuz I mean a lot of the the success we've all had is because we knew what to protect. Fact. And I know like for me in the early days, it was I was just scared I didn't know when I finally figured it out, it took me like I started at 17 and it wasn't till I was 24. And I'm talking 7 years

0:42of like hustling, try no side hustle. This is like full-time, parents begging me just get a normal job, can't do it, unemployable. And then when I started and it started to kind of click, I just didn't know what I was doing that made it click. So, then it was just like you know, I'm

1:00spinning plates non-stop. And that that literally almost killed me. And then it even though I sold that company became wealthy, it almost caused me to never get back in the operator game. And and then I moved to San Francisco and what I learned in San Francisco was how these 20-something year old kids use leverage and build these massive companies. And that that was where I had a early mentor Naval Ravikant who people know today cuz of Joe Rogan, but back then he was just

1:27Naval and he did Epinions and stuff. This is 2008. And he's the one that showed me the concept that I leaned into around time and the value of your time and how you have to treat it like it's worth more. If it's not if I didn't go there, I would have never figured out what I wrote about in the book cuz it was I mean I just knew one gear which is

1:48getting done, you know? So, what was it when you're you were in SF, you just looked at it and went, "How are these kids doing this with ease?" Was it there like an aha moment? Like what where did one part speed. Cuz you got to understand like you you meet these kids, they they've built 50 million raise

2:04let's say raise 50 million. And they they hire hundreds of people and they're 23, 24, 25 X Stanford graduates, you know, Berkeley and I'm just like I didn't understand it. And that's that's where like talking to Naval and watching this is early days like guys like David Sacks who's big on all in podcast like, you know, Calacanis. Like that was my cohort if you want to say that that uh my peer group back then and you know, they're the ones that were showing me, you know, great companies are built in downturns cuz it increases the IQ per square foot. That was one of the I I

2:36never occurred to me cuz if not then everybody's fighting for talent. Um and that there's only four ways to get leverage which is content collaboration capital which obviously you know, and then um code, right? And today AI is the most powerful form of code. And once I understood so I I was a software guy so I understood the code one. I understood the capital one, but it was the collaboration part that I didn't understand and I think that was where once I understood the value of the people in my life and how to hire, develop and retain them, that's when my life got really big without sucking up

3:13all my time. Real quick, you've made it to the end. Let me tell you what I know about you. You're not somebody that's looking to do shelf help. You're not somebody just doom scrolling on social media. You're here cuz you want to build build a real business and you're sick and tired of not getting the real insights to grow inside your business. So I want to help you avoid all the pain trying to figure

3:31this out the hard way like I did it. That's why I put together everything I've ever learned into the Scale Workbook. It's the internal document that I use with every founder I work with that turns a chaotic business into a money-making machine. I'm teaching you all of this without burning more hours. It's totally free. The link is in the description or you can just scan the QR code on the screen cuz I'm here to help

3:50you build your empire.