Active businesses are like horcruxes, every time you start one, you split a piece of your soul.

Our reading notes on Alex Hormozi

• How I Would Build a $10M Service Business (If I Had to Start Over) | Ep 1004

  A roofing contractor asks whether a video for a prospective customer should resemble his public YouTube videos. Hormozi walks through the narrower job of a sales video. Explain the proposed work, show a relevant local example and address the questions homeowners routinely ask before someone comes to the house.

• Alex Hormozi on Becoming a Millionaire, Quieting Your Ego & Forgetting About Legacy

  Howes asks Hormozi about ego, what makes a product better and when to discuss price. Together those questions offer a way to examine a difficult sales conversation. A founder can be proud of the work and still learn that a customer cares about a different result.

• I Offered $10,000 to Anyone Who Could Change My Mind | Ep 1013

  Hormozi invites entrepreneurs to challenge rules he has offered publicly. The chapter at 5:23 concerns which customers to sell to. Another, at 24:16, asks how much a founder should stake on one decision. The debate format gives the challenger a concrete job: find a situation in which following the rule produces a poor result.