David Grau Sr.

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861 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 19 Feb

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford · Building a Business That Outlasts You (David Grau Sr.) · 19 Feb 2026 podcast

I put all the best stuff in the front third to the front half so I could at least get it in front of people.

But I am absolutely sure that there are some great books out there.

But I think the problem becomes...

Most entrepreneurs aren't sure what question to ask.

They're not sure what problem to solve.

And so what I try to help them understand is I am going to take you from the organizational model where you're the hub of the wheel and everything runs through you, and I'm going to take you out of that role, off the treadmill, and we're going to promote you to CEO.

And as CEO, you need to learn how to run a business, a small business.

You need to learn how to delegate.

You don't need to learn how to hire.

You need to learn how to hire somebody who can go find people to solve the problems that you need solved.

And so let's figure out what the non-negotiables are.

Let's figure out all the jobs you currently do that we are going to take off of your plate in the next three years.

Now, we're not going to go hire somebody who's

got a good work ethic that promises to show up every day.

Now, we're going to hire somebody that can take over payroll and the bookkeeping.

Get that out of the way.

Then we're going to hire somebody who can make it rain consistently day after day, year after year.

Well, you're on a four-week vacation in Maui.

we're going to go hire sales and then we're going to go hire a coo and then a cfo to help manage this place so you're the person has to organize and orchestrate that whole group those are the skills i want you to go learn and if you get them off of a book on amazon super if you want to watch the book the book i recommend if everybody's wondering what it was it's the personal mba that's the book i tell everybody

That's cool.

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