Stop Trying to Fix the Thing That's Working | Ep 978
6/11/202613 min
Download your free personalized $100M scaling roadmap in under 30 seconds: https://www.acquisition.com/roadmap?el=yt-alex-486r&htrafficsource=youtube Many entrepreneurs hide behind the belief that their businesses aren’t scalable. They want problems to stop so they can scale easier and faster. In this episode, Alex busts this myth, arguing that the demand for a problem-free business is the biggest problem. The edge isn't speed. It's staying with what works long after everyone else has quit. In this episode 00:00 The belief that a business isn’t scalable 02:45 Giving solutions time to work 04:29 Expectations vs a realistic timeline 06:51 Why all businesses are scalable 09:05 Sticking with one business opportunity More Value: Join The Live Scaling Workshop In Las Vegas: https://www.acquisition.com/o-vegas Download your free personalized $100M scaling roadmap in under 30 seconds: https://www.acquisition.com/roadmap?el=yt-alex-486r&htrafficsource=youtube Get the $100M Book Bundle: https://shop.acquisition.com/pages/100m-book-bundle Discover The Easiest Business I Can Help You Start (Free Trial): https://www.skool.com/hormozi Free Books and Video Courses: https://www.acquisition.com/training DISCLOSURE Information shared here is for educational purposes only. Individuals and business owners should evaluate their own business strategies, and identify any potential risks. The information shared here is not a guarantee of success. Your results may vary. Copyright © 2026.
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First 90 secondsAlex Hormozi· Host0:00
I want to talk about a business myth that needs to die. It's something that so many business owners believe. And so I'm gonna explain what it is, how it's applied to thousands of businesses that have come to our headquarters here at acquisitions.com in Vegas, and how it's likely holding you back. And it's one of the most insidious beliefs, and I think it might be the one that ends the most businesses. And the crazy part is it has nothing to do with the business and everything to do about how you treat it. It's not that your business isn't scalable, it's that you want scaling to be easier, and that's the issue. Your business isn't broken. You don't need to change the business. You need to deal with the fact that solutions take time and that this might just be a feature of the business you're in. Now, part of you might think, "Well, if this is a feature of the business that I'm in, uh, I don't wanna have this business." Okay. Well, if-- let's walk through that. So hypothetically, if you were very good at solving that problem, would that be a problem that you'd be more okay with dealing with? Maybe. And if you're considering an alternative path, you should also consider the alternative problems, right? You're like, "Well, I wanna do something else." Okay, tell me all the things that suck about that path, because I promise there are things that suck about that path. And then the follow-up question to that is, are you better equipped to solve those problems? Now, in the hypothetical world, you always think you're better equipped to solve those problems, but oftentimes you've never even solved them before. And maybe the problems you think that are there are not actually the real problems. The real problems are much deeper and more nefarious than the ones you currently deal with. And so I think that there's some-something so deep about the saying, the devil you know, right? Is that, like, the business is the devil you know, and you've maybe been doing this for a year, two years, or five years, or ten years, however