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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

What about manufacturing?

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

What about logistics in terms of pick, pack, ship?

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

And then on the capital side, it's like, do we have lending partners?

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

Because we might run out of capital if we're scaling really quickly, because there can literally be nothing wrong with your business.

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

But think about this.

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

If you have 10 units of something and you make $10 of profit on each unit and you sell all of them in a day and the next day 10 more people want to buy, there's nothing you can do.

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

And so that might mean that you might have 300 units worth of demand and you only have 10 units worth of profit.

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

What do you have to do next month?

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

You can only buy 10 more.

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

right?

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

And so your growth rate will be dictated by the amount of free cash flow that the business kicks off.

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

And then that will be the growth rate that you'll be able to sustain or only growth rate that you'll be able to have in the business.

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

And you'll be constrained by that capital.

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

There are lending partners because this is clearly a capital constrained business if you're growing quickly.

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

But those are some of the negatives or some of the downsides.

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

Now, if you own one of these businesses, what's the big hairy problem?

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

What's the big problem that you have to solve?

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

Number one is managing cash flow.

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

So you have to be able to forecast cash flow.

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

You have to look at inventory cycles.