Neil Patel

Most of our engineering team is outsourced.

Funny enough, it's not outsourced to like India or anything like that.

We're outsourcing to South America and we're paying 150 bucks an hour per engineer, which I know doesn't make sense, but we just evaluate based on efficiency.

Someone can charge us 300 bucks an hour, but if their code is cleaner and they can, you know, create code four times faster, it's still cheaper dollar per output.

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There is not.

What I do like doing is there's a lot of books out there from CEOs of existing companies like IBM, et cetera, and they break down their mistakes, business concepts.

I know the internet and social media, everything's changing the way the world works and technology is really rapidly advancing, but business concepts and principles has stayed pretty much the same for the last hundred years.

What worked back then dealing with competition, et cetera.

The same concepts work now.

Sure, the strategies may be a bit different here and there on how you execute because of technology, but the lessons that you can learn from these CEOs and the mistakes they made are still applicable to your business.

And if you can avoid making mistakes and the same one over and over again, eventually your odds of succeeding will increase.

Yeah, it was funny.

The other day I was adding someone to my Admin's account.

And I was calling Amex and they asked me these security questions.

And you don't come up with the security.

They come up with the, and they were asking me, the first question they asked was something like, what neighborhood have you lived in?

Like, what's it?

Don't you hate that?

I hate it.