The Game with Alex Hormozi · 2025-05-21 · 34 min · 7,940 words

Why Most Businesses Stall After $3M | Ep 860

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flow to do more work, but you have to in order to grow. So either you work overtime or you bring someone else in to work overtime or you do both, which is what I recommend. And that means it's going to be hard, which is why most people stay stuck. I wanted to make a video about five business lessons that I just learned costing 250 million in 2024. And I wanted to make this because like I think at all levels you're always growing.

Like when I was at $1 million a year, You know, I uh I I had a certain amount of lessons that I had to learn. And then it's a 10 million, there are certain lessons I had to learn, 100 million, there's certain lessons I had to learn. This last year, there's five lessons that are, I would say, new, but would have applied kind of retroactively to all stages of business growth for me. So the first one was the cost of change.

And so it's like, what does that, what does that really mean? So it was the first time that I've actually quantified. How much does changing something in the business actually cost? So if you would imagine a straight line, right, and saying, okay, this is normal business activity, right? Straight line is going across.

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