The Only Metric of Success That Actually Matters

0:00There's a quote from Jason Pargin that says, "Accept that all of your heroes are full of [ __ ] Your heroes aren't gods, they're just regular people who probably got good at one thing by neglecting literally everything else." Yeah. I just agree with the statement. [ __ ] money. Um I I it's just so interesting to me. I've been thinking about this to do with Billy McFarland. Uh Let me Let me just get this in. Hit it. And that's okay. Because if they wanted that, then that's the problem that they're solving for.

0:27Like I get criticized all the time for work-life balance. People are like, "Well, you don't have any hobbies, Alex, and you don't whatever." Right? And I'm like, "I don't [ __ ] want any." So why do I have to sacrifice things that I would prefer to do to do things I don't want to do to satisfy your objective measure of what you deem as work-life balance? Why? >> So that's what what This is what you were talking about. What was it? Optimize for the outcome or what's the metric of success? Yeah.

0:53>> You were saying like what what is it that people are optimizing for? Right? >> Right. It seems to me that you have stepped back and decided axiomatically, this is the thing that I'm optimizing for. That I enjoy most doing. >> Yes. That's I enjoy playing the game. And so everything I do is about the game. Yes. My podcast is called The Game. I draw pictures all day about business. I write books about business. I make content about business. I spend the rest of my time >> I've never seen a picture of >> 100 million offers. Zillion pictures in there.

1:21>> Oh, are they done by you? 100% all of the drawings are mine. And 100 million leads is like 100 doodles in it. Isn't it? Oh yeah. >> good? Are they nice? I think so. >> Have they got Yeah, they >> Cute. Yeah. You got little animals in? They don't have animals in, I'm not I'm not going to look at them. Oh, there's there's little bag of money, big bag of money. Like that's how I like it. >> Dead serious. Sweet. >> but like and and I spend the rest of my day doing business. Yeah. And so it's like, "Well, why don't you garden?" Cuz I don't care. Real quick, if you are a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift. So my team and I put together the 100 million dollar scaling road map, which is basically 200 hours of us looking over all the portfolio companies we've had and what stages of growth they went through and more importantly where they got stuck and how they got past it. And so we broke it in these 10 stages and we made this little kind of quiz thing where if you put in your business information it'll tell you where you're at and the most important part for you what to do for each of functions of the business across product, marketing, sales, customer success, recruiting, IT, human resources and finance. And so no matter what you're struggling with someone else has already struggled with it and solved it.

2:23And so I'd like to give you this thing absolutely free. You can go to acquisition.com/roadmap, plug in your business information and if you want us to actually help you deconstruct the business and you're trying to scale we'd love to help you out. On the thank you page you can book a call with my team and we will look at the business, see if we can help and if we can we'll invite you out to Vegas and we'll do this in person live.