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My First MillionAlex Hormozi’s Plan To Grow Acquisition.com To $1 Billion (#462)
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Hormozi on Acquisition.com, Fame, Mission, Wealth, and Obsessive Optimization
- Hormozi explains that Acquisition.com is a family-office-meets-conglomerate holding 11 portfolio companies funded entirely with his own money, built on recruiting A-players and mostly minority stakes.
- He says media loses money relative to its team costs, and that fame brings security needs and strangers but also proprietary deal flow and top talent at market rate or below.
- He reflects on selling Gym Launch for $46.2 million after it had been valued at $150 million pre-COVID, saying he doesn't regret it because it gave him the credibility and space to start Acquisition.com.
- The conversation turns to why rich people keep playing, with Hormozi and Shaan Puri framing it as loving the game, and Hormozi describing a mission of building companies on praise rather than punishment.
- The hosts and Hormozi also cover admired figures, relationship advice, his obsessive approach to clothing and gear, and his portfolio of roughly half treasuries, a quarter index funds and a quarter private companies.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasFame costs privacy but pays in deal flow and talent
Hormozi says he has security and can't enjoy events, yet his brand brings proprietary deals and top talent at market rate or below, so the pros outweigh the cons.
He keeps his acquisitions quiet to protect the businesses
His endorsement could multiply a company's size overnight and would tie him to any exit, so he stays tight-lipped and uses his face to bring deals in rather than to promote them.
Minority stakes make growth harder than control does
Hormozi says the hardest part is that founders half-listen to advice, and the business he enjoys most is the one he controls, so he may do more majority deals.
Bigger markets mattered more than better tactics
After a meetup of founders doing about $500 million combined, he concluded they simply pursued markets 10 to 100 times larger than his gym niche, which shaped his next venture.
Selling Gym Launch was a shortfall financially but not personally
He admits he could have kept it and borrowed against it without a personal guarantee, but says the sale gave him the credibility and space he needed for his next step.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesI can't buy that skyscraper right there, and I can't buy this huge company. And so what happens is like the things that you wanna buy change, and so you create a new deficit for the amount of wealth that you want.
— Alex Hormozi
I think there's like f- n- knowing something and then experiencing it are two kind of separate things.
— Alex Hormozi
Life is basically looking back- And being like, "I was such an idiot." And that's how I mark years of time, not by like the calendar days, but by number of times I look back and say, "God, I was so dumb.
— Shaan Puri
They understand the macro level of business, and I think where you can get really dangerous is when you know both.
— Alex Hormozi
Simple, not easy I feel like is the, is the fucking theme of, of so many things like fitness, nutrition, marriage, business. Like, simple to do or simpl- simple to understand conceptually, very hard to do.
— Alex Hormozi
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