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Alex Hormozi

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The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

It's shaped this way because taking out vibe coding for a moment, once you do have product market fit, the way that Y Combinator describes this is that getting product market fit is like pushing a boulder up the hill.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

And once you have it, it's like chasing, getting chased by the boulder on the other way down, right?

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

Is that you're chasing after this because you have so much more demand than you can even handle and like the wheels come flying off.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

So it's shaped this way because it's hard to build a good product.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

Engineering is, especially good engineering, is incredibly expensive.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

You have to front that capital because you have no income, right?

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

Think about this.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

The rest of these businesses, you can get pretty close to bootstrapping.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

SAS, the reason there is such a big venture capital industry is because it costs

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

money, millions of dollars to get the level of talent required to make great products in engineering.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

And you have to front that for like a year, sometimes two years before you even turn a dollar, right?

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

And definitely not enough dollars to make it profitable.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

And so you have this very long, very unprofitable runway.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

And so as a result of all the businesses I just described, the fewest number of businesses are here, are in software.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

And it's because the barriers to entry are higher.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

Now, vibe coding, things like that have made it easier.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

More people are coding now.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

Some engineers can, there's coding bootcamps plus vibe coding where people can do components of their job with it.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

And so it's becoming more democratized.

The Game with Alex Hormozi
How To Grow ANY Business Once You Know Its Shape | Ep 992

That being said, it's still between the other three, way fewer people here compared to the other ones.