5 Things I Just Learned After 14 Years of Business | Ep 846

This episode explores five key business lessons learned by Alex Hormozi after his business surpassed $250 million in revenue in 2024. He first highlights the often-overlooked "cost of change," estimating a 20% decrease in effectiveness when altering established business processes, advocating for prioritizing high-impact changes over numerous small ones. Against this backdrop, he emphasizes the importance of revenue retention over virality, noting that while word-of-mouth marketing is valuable, it's not universally applicable across all business models; he suggests focusing on the percentage of customers who remain after a year. More significantly, Hormozi discusses the crucial LTV (Lifetime Value) to CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) ratio, arguing that the ideal ratio varies greatly depending on the level of automation in a business's attraction, conversion, and delivery processes. For instance, a highly automated business might aim for a 3:1 ratio, while a manual business might need a 20:1 or higher ratio. He then delves into the challenges of the $1-3 million revenue range, explaining that the lack of sufficient cash flow often forces entrepreneurs to choose between overworking or making risky high-cost hires. Finally, Hormozi stresses the importance of overcoming FOMO (fear of missing out) by focusing on one core business and avoiding the rush to diversify prematurely, illustrating this with examples of successful long-term businesses that prioritized a single, well-developed venture. This means for entrepreneurs that focusing on a single, scalable business model is key to long-term success, and that the "cost of change" should be carefully considered before making any significant alterations to existing processes.