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You need to go broke
You need to go broke
With every business that you make
There will be ups and downs
On the ups, you’re focused on scaling and expanding
On the downs, you’re eliminating the excess fat and making your business efficient
But you need to go broke sometimes to reevaluate your machine
I look at a business as a machine
A machine that spits out cash
You put money and energy into a machine and it spits out cash on the other end
A very interesting thing that I’ve realized, is in the process of scaling
You focus on building that machine, making it bigger, hiring, adding parts to that machine
But by doing that in a rushed way can lead to low efficiency
Most people forget about capital efficiency
Especially those that are not business savvy, they will build a machine
Put time, effort, and money into it.
But the machine that they build not necessarily one that has a higher output than input
Whenever that happens
Whenever your machine/business is spitting less cash than the energy added inside
That’s when you go broke if you’re a beginner.
When that happens here’s what you need to do.
-Eliminate the fat
-Learn from your lesson (never repeat)
-Focus on learning
-Live below your means
-Learn how to add tech to the machine
By doing that, you’re basically making that machine more efficient and making it spit more cash relative to the energy you add inside
A great place to learn how to do so is in my group
I’ve just dropped a module about capital efficiency and how you can add AI tech to make that system more efficient
Anyway….
In life you need to go broke a few times to understand how to properly scale companies
You will go broke
And that’s natural
I’ve gone broke many times
No shame about it
It’s all a part of the process
The process of getting better
You just need to be relentless in the journey of success
As long as you focus on continuously learning and actioning on new data
You’ll kill it
Go get it man
-JP
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