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Getting rich in business is not about working harder - it is about tracking seven specific numbers that most founders never learn to calculate.
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- You run a service business, agency, or coaching practice and your revenue feels disconnected from your actual wealth.
- You have crossed six figures in revenue but still feel broke at the end of the month.
- You have never calculated your gross margin, churn rate, or customer acquisition cost from first principles.
- You want a portable dashboard of metrics you can apply to any business model without hiring a CFO.
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- You already track all seven of these metrics monthly and understand how they compound into enterprise value.
- You are pre-revenue - these levers matter most once you have customers to measure.
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Seven metrics quietly separate businesses that build wealth from ones that generate busy revenue. Enterprise value tells you what you are building toward. Gross margin tells you how much of each dollar you keep. Churn rate tells you how fast you are losing ground. LTV tells you what each client is worth over time. CAC tells you what you pay to acquire each one. Conversion rate tells you where your funnel breaks. Burn rate and runway tell you how many months you have left to fix it. Know all seven and you know exactly which lever to pull.
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01 · The promise and origin story
Hook: seven principles equals rich. Flashback to being broke at 24, multimillionaire by 28. The 7-principle color-coded bar chart appears as a visual anchor.
01:02 – 02:08
02 · P1: Know What You Are Building - Enterprise Value
Build a business you could sell. EV = Profit x Industry Multiple. Example: $500K profit at 3x = $1.5M enterprise value.
02:08 – 04:50
03 · P2: Keep What You Make - Gross Margin
Revenue is vanity. Gross Margin = (Revenue minus Cost to Deliver) / Revenue x 100. Target: 70%+. Example: $50K rev, $10K cost = 80% gross margin.
04:50 – 07:20
04 · P3: Plug the Holes Before You Fill the Bucket - Churn Rate
Fixing retention is cheaper than acquiring new customers. Churn = Clients Lost / Clients at Month Start x 100. Target: 3% monthly or below.
07:20 – 09:15
05 · P4: Know What They Are Worth - Lifetime Value
LTV = Avg Revenue per Client / Monthly Churn Percent. Example: $100/month client at 2% churn = $5,000 LTV. Cutting churn in half doubles LTV.
09:15 – 12:22
06 · P5: Know Your Spend - Customer Acquisition Cost
CAC = Total Acquisition Spend / New Clients Added. Example: $10K / 20 clients = $500 CAC. Introduces CAC payback period.
12:22 – 13:58
07 · P6: Tighten Your Funnels - Conversion Rate
Break funnel into Leads, Qualified, Booked, Showed, Closed. Measure each stage. Fix the biggest drop first.
13:58 – 16:30
08 · P7: Know How Long You Can Go - Burn Rate and Runway
Burn = Cash Out + Cash In. Runway = Cash in Bank / Monthly Burn. If runway is 2-3 months, take massive action. Daily cash report recommended.
16:30 – 17:15
09 · Recap and CTA
All 7 principles on color-coded summary bar chart. Workbook DM pitch repeated. Link to zero-to-million video.
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- Revenue is vanity - you can hit ten million in revenue and still wake up broke if your margins are thin.
- Gross margin below 70 percent on a service or software business is a structural problem, not a temporary phase.
- Cutting churn in half doubles the lifetime value of every customer you already have, with no extra acquisition spend.
- It is seven to eight times cheaper to sell something to an existing client than to go find a new one.
- If you cannot price a single yes from a client, you cannot price growth - and the fastest growth will drain your cash.
- A company you could sell is always a great company to run, regardless of whether you ever actually sell it.
- Your P&L is an autopsy after the fact, not a diagnosis - your business could be 30 days from default and you would not know.
- The CAC payback period determines whether fast growth feels like momentum or like running out of money.
- A daily cash report is the cheapest early warning system a business owner can build.
- Most founders treat retention as a marketing problem when a client leaves - the fix is usually a delivery problem.
- Setup fees and pre-payments finance the gap between acquiring customers and getting paid back, which is how fast-growing companies stay solvent.
- The biggest error in funnel thinking is optimizing the top when the actual leak is at qualified-to-booked or booked-to-showed.
Seven numbers that decide whether you build wealth or busy revenue.
WHAT TO LEARN
Most business owners feel the gap between revenue and wealth but cannot name the metric causing it - these seven formulas close that gap.
- Enterprise value is the only metric that connects daily operating decisions to long-term wealth - building toward a sellable company forces better decisions even if you never sell.
- Gross margin is the structural ceiling most service businesses ignore; thin margins cap your wealth potential no matter how fast you grow revenue.
- Retention is almost always a cheaper lever than acquisition: fixing churn by half doubles LTV for every customer you already have without spending a dollar on ads.
- Customer acquisition cost is meaningless without the CAC payback period - a low CAC that takes 12 months to recover still destroys cash when you scale fast.
- Funnel conversion rates should be measured stage by stage; the step with the biggest drop is the only one worth fixing first.
- Burn rate and runway are not accounting outputs - they are operating inputs that should be reviewed daily so you always know how many months you have to act.
- The hardest financial habit to build is separating gross profit from net profit; conflating them leads to pricing and hiring decisions made on the wrong number.
Terms worth knowing.
- Enterprise Value (EV)
- The total value a buyer would pay for a business, calculated as annual profit multiplied by an industry-standard multiple. It connects daily operating decisions to long-term wealth creation.
- Gross Margin
- The percentage of revenue remaining after subtracting the direct cost to deliver a product or service, before overhead. Higher gross margin means more money available to reinvest.
- Churn Rate
- The percentage of customers who stop buying in a given period, calculated as clients lost divided by clients at the start of that period.
- Lifetime Value (LTV)
- The total revenue a single customer generates over their entire relationship with the business, calculated as average monthly revenue per client divided by monthly churn rate.
- Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)
- The total amount spent on sales, marketing, and related overhead to acquire a single paying customer. The ratio of LTV to CAC determines whether a growth channel is worth scaling.
- CAC Payback Period
- How many months it takes for a new customer to generate enough revenue to cover the cost of acquiring them. A short payback period means you can grow fast without running out of cash.
- Burn Rate
- The net cash a business consumes each month when expenses exceed revenue. Combined with cash on hand, it determines runway.
- Runway
- The number of months a business can continue operating at its current burn rate before cash runs out. Experienced founders track this number continuously.
- Durable Revenue
- Recurring or predictable revenue streams that reduce risk for potential buyers and justify higher valuation multiples in enterprise value calculations.
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“You can hit ten million in revenue and still wake up broke.”
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“If you just pour water into a bucket with massive holes in it, you cannot pour enough water fast enough to fill that bucket up.”
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“Same price, twice the value.”
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“Your P and L is an autopsy after the fact, not a diagnosis.”
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“If you cannot price the yes, you cannot price growth.”
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00:00If you know these seven principles, you will get rich. Whether you're broke or you make money, but you know you should be making more, this video will fix both. I learned seven principles of success that took me from dead fuck broke at 24 to being a multimillionaire by 28 in four years.
00:16And these principles aren't just some generic advice. We'll leave that for the other people. Each one has a number that's gonna make it crystal clear on how you act on each and every one.
00:26Starting with principle number one, know what you're building. The idea is this, can you get a business that can generate profits without you? It's very simple.
00:35If you vanish, poof, tomorrow, would the whole thing collapse?
00:40Would it slowly decay? My rule is I always build a business so I can sell it because whether I do or don't, a company I could sell is a great company to run. So what metric should you measure so that you know that what you're building is the right thing?
00:55It's called enterprise value or EV and here's how you calculate it. The first thing is we have to take your yearly profits.
01:04Then you multiply it by the industry multiple. This is the average amount of money that buyers, if you build something that people wanna buy, will pay on the profit.
01:16The less risk the business has, the higher the profit, the better the multiple. So it's called durable revenue. So for example, let's use real simple numbers.
01:26If you're making 500,000 in profit each year, okay, you have a business that does 1,500,000 and it's 30% profit, that's a half million dollars in profit.
01:36You then look at the industry average, let's call it an agency, and it's got a three x multiple, then that means your business to a buyer could be worth $1,500,000. That's your enterprise value.
01:48That's why when you're making decisions about growing your business, you want to think, can I invest some of that profit back into the business to increase my enterprise value because you can take that from $1.05 to 3,000,000 fairly quickly? So now we know what we're building and how to build it, but what makes a business more valuable than another?
02:05Principle number two, keep what you make. This is what separates a two x business from a 10 x business. It's not what you make, it's what you keep.
02:15Every dollar that you keep after you pay all your expenses makes the business more valuable. Some people have big revenue and tiny little margins, and to me that revenue is just vanity. Right?
02:25You can hit 10,000,000 in revenue and still wake up broke. Those people show up in my DMs every day because they don't know this. Until you actually know how to keep every dollar that you're making, then you're just flying blind in business and you're not creating wealth.
02:39You're not being efficient. The metric that aligns the most with how much you keep is gross margin.
02:44So essentially, we have revenue. How much money do you make per month?
02:50Then you gotta subtract the cost, k, to deliver. Everything that came with the item or the services, how much did that make?
03:01K. That's per month. And if you do that, if you have revenue minus cost to deliver, that equals gross profit, which is different than profit.
03:12Look, profit is typically your revenue minus all your expenses. This is gross profit on just the things sold. So to get our gross margin number, what we gotta do is take our gross profit.
03:23K? I know I'm asking you to do math. Stay with me.
03:26We're gonna have some fun. Divided by our revenue. How much money did I make that month, k, times a 100 because it's a math equation and that equals our gross margin.
03:39So for example, if my revenue for the month is 50 k, k, and my cost to deliver was only 10 k, that means my gross profit, pretty awesome, equals $40,000.
03:54Cool. Now I take the 40 k and then I divide it by my revenue, is 50 k, and then I multiply it by that 100 so I get the number 80% gross margin.
04:07Your accountant has probably never been able to explain this to you and you're like, I don't get it. My rule is gross margin for any business I'm involved in never falls below 70%. Now, if you own a restaurant, you're like, well, that's freaking awesome.
04:21I don't get it because average food cost in a restaurant, the margin is about 23 percent. It's different for every business, but that is where I like to stay because the higher the gross margin when I'm building a business, the more profit I usually have at the end of the month, which means the business is more valuable to increase my enterprise value.
04:39So knowing your margins is step one, but understanding all the principles to apply it to your business, that's a completely different thing. So if you want my internal scale your business workbook with the exact steps that I walk all my coaching clients through for free.
04:53Just DM me the word YouTube workbook on Instagram and I'll send it right over. So having large margins is awesome sauce, but the large margins won't feel very good if you can't maintain them, which brings us to the next principle. Principle number three, you gotta plug the holes in the bucket before you fill it.
05:09If you're losing clients faster than you can bring them in, there's a point where you will just be banging your head against the ceiling. See, most entrepreneurs that see clients leaving just go, oh, I have a marketing problem.
05:21Gotta go run more ads. I gotta get more people to show up. Wrong move.
05:25If you just pour water into a bucket with massive holes in it, you can't pour enough water fast enough to fill that bucket up, And that is what people often do. How about you keep the customers you have or sell more to them versus trying to find some new ones? Do you know it's seven to eight times cheaper to sell something to an existing client than it is to go find a new one?
05:47So where should you put your effort and at what level? The metric that helps you plug the holes in that bucket is called churn rate. So here's how we calculate it.
05:55Super simple. So first thing is we need the clients that we've lost that month.
06:00K? Clients lost. How many this month did you lose, k, in the month?
06:05Then we divide that number by the total amount of clients we had at the beginning of the month, not the end of the month, beginning of the month. And to make that a percentage, like always, we multiply it by a 100 and that equals your churn rate. So for example, let's say you had three people leave.
06:24At the beginning of the month, you started with a 100. That would mean times a 100, you would have a 3% churn rate.
06:33Most businesses should be at 3% monthly churn. Okay?
06:37Now obviously every business is harder to calculate this. If you have a restaurant, you have an agency, you have a retail store, it's a little different. But you can still look at the transaction volume.
06:46You can look at the average purchase rate. You can figure out through the data what yours is, and honestly, just look at like how often are people buying from you again and again. If you never lose a customer, think about it.
06:57It's graph. Okay? And on the top side you have how much you're growing, but on the bottom side you have how many customers you've lost.
07:03If you grabbed all those people underneath that line and you put it on top of the customers you currently have, that's how much bigger your business would be if you never lost a customer. For most businesses, that could be two or three times bigger. So now we know how many clients are leaving, the next thing we need to know is what are those clients actually worth?
07:21Think about this. The client you already have is worth way more than the one you're chasing. Most founders are out there spending all their time and energy trying to chase new customers and not realize that the ones that they have now could be worth a lot of money if they knew what that was worth.
07:35I'm a big fan of always growing what you've got before you go chase what you don't. And the metric that tracks what each one of your clients are worth is lifetime value or LTV. Here's how we calculate it.
07:47It's a super cool simple formula that nobody teaches. So what you do is you take the average revenue per client per month.
07:56K? How much is that number? And then you divide it by the monthly churn percent.
08:07K? And that will give you your lifetime value.
08:11K? Aren't you curious what your customer's worth? I am.
08:15I'm curious for you. Let's say, for example, a customer pays you a $100 a month. K?
08:21Divided by, let's say you have a 2% monthly churn, 0.02, then that means your customer is worth $5,000. You see why this gets exciting?
08:34Because instead of losing customers and you keep them, they get worth more and more and more. And when you do that, guess what goes up? Enterprise value.
08:42I know it all stacks together. K? The important note is that churn is the drag on this number.
08:48K? Obviously, what you get paid every month is important, but most people don't realize that if they can cut their churn in half, they double the value of their customer with no extra effort. Same price, twice the value.
08:59So yes, you can get more value from your existing clients, but you still have to grow the business. And every time you do that, it does cost you something. Principle number five, know your spend.
09:08Here's the thing. It doesn't matter if you're a professional speaker, a coach, a restaurant, a retail store, sell stuff online.
09:16Before you ever get paid, a client costs you money. K? Think about it.
09:20From an ads point of view, maybe you gotta pay a sales commission, maybe you had to do a promotion, a marketing thing, maybe you had to pay to go on a radio station. There's cost that goes into making the market aware of you before somebody ever gives you money. And most founders and business owners never tally up what a single yes from a client actually costs.
09:39The richest operators I know know this number cold. Broke ones, they guess. And if you can't price the yes, you can't price growth.
09:48The metric that tracks how much a client costs is called the customer acquisition cost or your CAC. So first, you have to take everything that you spend to get a customer and know what that means.
10:00So that is your cost to get a client.
10:05I'm talking the ads, the sales commission, the software that you had to pay for those teams, and that's how much you spent that month. Then you divide how many new clients you added that month.
10:18K? Not leads, not trials, actually paying clients that gave you money. And that will give you your CAC, your cost to acquire a customer.
10:28Let's say for example, you spent $10,000 in expenses that month to acquire customers and you got, you would divide the number by twenty, twenty new customers, that means every one of them cost you $500.
10:44So your CAC to acquire customers is $500. Isn't this cool? Now you can evaluate opportunities to grow the business.
10:51So if somebody comes to you and they say, hey, I can get you new customers for a $100. You say, that's cool because right now I'm paying 500.
10:58If you can get it for a 100, that's a steal. Let's run it. Let's try it out.
11:01Right? But if somebody came to you and said, hey. I can get you a customer for a thousand dollars, you might go, how about No.
11:07No. So here's a pro tip. There's another metric called the CAC payback period, meaning how much do you spend and how quick can you get it back?
11:15So let's say a customer pays me a $100 a month and my cost to acquire a customer is a $100 a month. That means that I can grow unlimited with a thirty day credit card to pay back.
11:26See what I'm saying? But if I have to spend $500 to get a customer and I only make that money back after six months, the faster I grow, what you hear is the sound of cash flying out of your business because you gotta finance that growth.
11:41Even if the customer's worth $5,000 to you. You wanna make sure that the speed that you can get back the cash that you spent to acquire the customer is as fast as possible. So that's why a lot of companies charge setup fees.
11:54They try to get you to increase your average order value. They try to get you to pre buy something before you use it because that cash finances the acquisition cost.
12:04Because if not, you have to finance other people's value that you're delivering with your business and that's just not a fun place to be. K. So now you know how much a customer's worth to you.
12:13That's awesome. But what if you're trying to grow and spend money to acquire customers but they can't find you? Which brings us to principle number six, tighten your funnels.
12:23Every week, new people know about you. They find content, they talk to somebody, they refer to you, and they walk into your business, your website, and they wanna buy from you.
12:34They raise their hand, and yet somehow, somewhere along the process that they wanted to give you money. They weren't able to do that. It happens in my businesses.
12:42There's broken links. People text me them. It's just a normal thing in business.
12:46The problem is is that most founders don't even see it happening. So the metric that tracks how many clients that come through your funnel and drop is your conversion rate. So here's how we calculate it.
12:57First, you take your funnel and you break it into all the separate steps that are involved. Think leads, qualified, booked, showed, and closed.
13:06That's usually the big ones. Right? Each stage is a new yes.
13:10If the person doesn't go from stage one to stage two, it's a no. At the end of the day, the conversion rate is the total amount of percent of people that started and finished by giving you money. So at each stage it says yes, those are called survivors.
13:23So we wanna count at each stage how many people survived that question. So if you have a 100 leads and then 40 people qualify and then 10 people book, eight people show, five percent close, that means your overall conversion rate is five percent. So now you got your funnels figured out and you look and you go, where should I focus my time?
13:42You need to figure out which step is broken and then go attack that step. So this allows you to know where you should be focusing your time so that you can improve the business the fastest. And then next we have principle number seven, know how long you can go.
13:55Every month that goes by where you don't make any money, then it has to come out of pocket. It's why when people start companies, they usually empty out their savings account. But at a certain point, you're gonna run out of energy and time to grow this business if you're not making any profit.
14:09You need to know how many tries, how many months do you have ahead of you so that you can calibrate each decision. Experienced founders, the best, know exactly how many months they have left. Your p and l, your profit and loss statement, it's an .
14:24Your business could be done in thirty days and you haven't done anything about it because you didn't even know. The metric that tracks how long your business has until it has to shut its door is called your burn rate and runway. K.
14:35So the first thing we need to do is figure out what is our burn rate. So essentially, you take the cash out, which is a negative number because it's gone. Then you add the cash that's coming in.
14:44This is your sales, any kind of revenue. That's really important. K?
14:48And that's a positive number. And then whatever is left over, that may be a negative number and essentially that is your burn. And for example, if you're spending $40, k, and the money coming in is only 20 k, k, then that means that your burn per month is negative $20,000 So that means every month that goes by, you lose $20,000 So now we know you know how much cash is in the bank, cash in bank, right?
15:17Minus your burn. Okay. Equals how many months your runway.
15:24K. Essentially, how many months can you continue this way?
15:29K. In the business world, I call this default debt. How many months before your default debt?
15:35Now, if you're making more than you're spending game on. But what happens is oftentimes we make investments, we make bets, and we can make that ratio get flipped again even if at one point we're making more than we're spending. So for example, if I start the business and I somehow get a $100,000 together and I'm burning every month 20 k, then that means I have five months of runway.
15:57Five months until I'm at zero. Five months until I'm default debt. At minimum, you obviously wanna make that number as far as possible into the future.
16:06If you're two to three months away, take massive, crazy, high volume action because one bad month can actually make this number a lot closer than you think. And one way I do this so that I'm never surprised is I do a daily cash report. That means every day I get how much cash came in, how much cash went out, and I'm paying attention to it so I can create a rhythm or a pulse on my cash.
16:28So those seven principles, if you follow them and you focus on them, you will increase the value of your business more than anything else. Now you know what levers to pull to improve it. What I wanna ask you below in the comments is let me know, out of those seven, which one did you feel you need to go calculate and go come back and calculate it this week?
16:46I don't need to know the answer, but I need to know that you did the work. The truth is the winners aren't the smartest people in the world that are like so genius level IQ. They're the ones that know their numbers, they know what to measure, and they know how to fix them.
16:59And remember, if you want my whole workbook on how to scale your business it includes this and a bunch of other stuff. Just go find me on Instagram and DM me the word YouTube workbook and I'll send it right over. And if you wanna learn how I would go from zero to a million dollars about starting from scratch, click here and I'll see you on the other side.
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7 Principles to Get Rich
- P1: Know What You Are Building (Enterprise Value)
- P2: Keep What You Make (Gross Margin)
- P3: Plug the Bucket Before You Fill It (Churn Rate)
- P4: Know What They Are Worth (Lifetime Value)
- P5: Know Your Spend (Customer Acquisition Cost)
- P6: Tighten Your Funnels (Conversion Rate)
- P7: Know How Long You Can Go (Burn Rate and Runway)
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