Eine Weltklasse Assistentin verändert alles

0:00I had my first kind of like world-class EA. And so, I will just do my very best to describe it. I'm early, so I'm almost I'm almost hesitant to make this because I'm like, this is like, "Oh, I'm in love." And and then you're like you're like, "How's that girlfriend of yours?" He's like, "Oh, we broke up, you know, whatever. It's terrible." So, take this with a gigantic grain of salt, but I I do think that this one worked out and I'll I'll tell you why. She's a psychopath and I think I had normal people and I'm not normal. And so, I needed I needed a psychopath. And I realized that the number one thing that I mean I said we said this in the interviews, but I still I still wasn't I had never actually experienced on the other side. I knew it in theory, but I hadn't experienced it, which is speed over everything.

0:38I needed someone who will always respond to me within 60 seconds, no matter when I message, and I will go for hours and hours and hours with nothing, and then the moment I message you, I need full resources, full attention because in that moment, you are my constraint. And I needed someone who had more competence, general horsepower. So, I will say this for for all of you guys who are who are founders, who who who you know, have schedules and whatnot.

1:06One, I think you should be the one who manages your time. In terms of who's doing the blocking and tackling, that's separate. I think you can outsource that. But who makes decisions on your time? If your time is your most valuable resource, why would you want anyone but the person who's the best allocator of resources, aka you, to be the person who's who's choosing how that time gets spent? So, thing number one. Two, I think speed above everything. Now, also above everything is general intelligence, and I think this is something that I I did not I did not appreciate, I did not screen for as much, and it was a mistake, and I found this by accident. My current EA is very intelligent. And so, as a result, I trust her decision-making to a much higher degree, and I feel like my ability to actually give true tasks that I do that come up that require horsepower, I can actually give them and be like, "Just do a first draft." And it I can get 80% of that done, and then I can tweak, rather than having to just truly do everything to Novo. So, the next piece that I think has been really helpful is whether you're maker or manager, plan your time accordingly, and live and die by that. I've had some of the most productive weeks of my life by finally, for the first time in so long, I actually feel like I'm ahead, which I've I haven't felt that in such a long time. Where I'm I'm actually proactively time blocking my time, that's all the free time that I have, but blocking it for what projects are being worked on each of these time slots. And she's keeping track of all my ongoing projects, and knowing what loops of like, "Hey, when are you going to close the loop on this? When are you going to Hey, by the way, this this followed up."

2:33And so, I'm sharing this so that for those of you who are like, "Man, I really need an executive assistant." Pay more than you expect. Look for somebody who's more intelligent, and say speed is non-negotiable. And have them watch the maker-manager video, because I think that will give a huge amount of context to how you work your life. And so, for me, that that was a huge a huge learning for this year. Real quick, if you're a business owner, and you're 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 scaling roadmap, 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. And 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.