The Game with Alex Hormozi

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Ahnny runs seven eyelash salons, doing $2.3M a year. But unpaid work, uneven staff training, and partners who no longer share her goals are stalling growth. In this episode, Alex breaks down her partnership and pricing options, a staff career path to keep her best employees, and a membership built on default closes. 

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Falling behind peers often has less to do with intelligence than with how fast you iterate. In this episode, Alex breaks learning into a seven-step process and explains why the fastest rate of improvement wins over time. He also makes the case for removing luck from your vocabulary and focusing only on what you can observe, measure, and repeat.

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Most business owners aren't held back by their obvious bad hires. The mediocre middle is what clogs businesses. In this episode, Alex defines organizational culture and explains why the weakest person a team tolerates sets the bar for what is acceptable. He also explains how local versus global empathy changes hard decisions about firing employees.
In this episode
00:00 What culture is: the rules of reward and punishment
02:25 The 80/20 of culture: who you fire is the loudest signal
07:09 Judge team members by output instead of excuses
11:05 The IQ analogy: why removing beats adding
13:45 Closing the gap between knowing and doing
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Eight entrepreneurs, $100,000, and a golden ticket on the line. Ninety days after Alex gave each founder a scaling roadmap, they return to prove they ran the plan. The founders share their revenue growth stats, adherence to the plan, and greatest surprises in the implementation process. One leaves with the price and a year of guidance from the Acquisition.com team.
In this episode
00:00 Golden ticket stakes and round one rules
01:34 Contestants’ 90-day results and eliminations
17:13 Joey’s scaling roadmap deep dive
20:32 Kaleb’s implementation review
23:44 Tina’s pricing overhaul and mindset shift
26:17 Hasee’s hiring, sales, and content creation wins
29:36 Adherence round eliminations
34:11 Tina and Joey’s final sales pitches
42:32 Judges deliberate and reveal the winner
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Most bad business bets start as emotional discomfort disguised as strategy. In this episode, Alex shares the three questions he uses to pressure-test every decision. He explains why distraction is often intellectual laziness, how asking the right questions unlocks stalled projects, and why doing nothing is so often the right call.
In this episode
00:00 The 3 questions Alex uses to make better bets
00:23 Question #1: What problem are you trying to solve?
02:45 Question #2: What would it take?
05:16 Question #3: What do you want to have happen?
10:24 Why “do nothing” is often the correct answer
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