21:40Daniel Priestley · Listicle
7 Unsexy Habits That Build a $1 Million Business
A 21-minute breakdown of the seven boring, repeatable habits behind 25 years and seven companies hitting seven figures — and none of them involve a sauna.
June 20thThe argument in one line.
Billionaires don't operate on different rules than everyone else, they just systematically improve their odds, invent new forms of currency, and design their businesses to scale value and eventually exit, and any of those habits can be applied well before reaching that wealth level.
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- You're building a business or personal brand and want a mental model for how truly wealthy operators think about luck, talent, and scale.
- You're deciding whether to keep grinding on your current venture or plan a deliberate exit and move on to something bigger.
- You lead or want to build a team and are trying to figure out how to recruit and align exceptional people around a shared vision.
- You're evaluating whether your business model rewards raw effort or value delivered at scale.
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- You're looking for step-by-step tactical instructions, this is a list of mindset patterns and short anecdotes, not a how-to guide.
- You want data or research backing the claims, the evidence here is entirely the presenter's personal anecdotes about people he knows.
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Priestley argues wealthy operators share nine repeatable habits rather than luck alone: they improve the odds of a lucky break instead of waiting for one, invent alternative currencies (reputation, equity, followers) beyond time and cash, reverse-engineer a vision from three years out instead of extrapolating from the past, and obsessively recruit outlier talent across four categories (distribution, leadership, execution, capital). They pair an inspiring vision with a named enemy to tap avoidance-based motivation, chase value that scales through IP, distribution, trained people, or software, and deliberately position themselves as high-value in every room rather than staying under the radar. Nearly all of them eventually have a defined exit event that returns time, money, and compounding lessons for the next, bigger venture. The throughline: none of these habits require existing wealth to start practicing.
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00:00 – 00:27
01 · Breakfast With A Billionaire
Cold open anecdote establishing access and credibility before the list begins.
00:27 – 03:12
02 · Control Your Luck
Luck as a dimmer switch you can influence the odds of, illustrated with Richard Branson's volume of attempts.
03:12 – 06:23
03 · Invent Your Own Currency
Reputation, brand, equity, and audience size treated as tradeable currencies beyond time and cash.
06:23 – 08:59
04 · Reverse Engineer Your Future
Projecting three years forward and working backward, used to recruit CEOs and investors into a vision.
08:59 – 12:38
05 · Recruit The Beethovens
Auditioning huge numbers of candidates for outlier talent; the four categories of people billionaires scout.
12:38 – 15:36
06 · Create An Enemy
Pairing an inspiring vision with a named adversary to tap avoidance-driven motivation.
15:36 – 18:00
07 · Scale Your Value
Why the economy rewards value at scale, and the four levers that create it: IP, distribution, people, software.
18:00 – 19:23
08 · Position Yourself As High Value
Deliberately signaling high-value status in every room rather than staying under the radar.
19:23 – 22:17
09 · Plan Your Exit
Nearly every wealthy biography has a defined exit event that returns time, money, and compounding lessons.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Luck functions like a dimmer switch, not an on/off switch, you can't control when a lucky break arrives, but you can control the odds of one happening.
- Richard Branson started roughly 400 companies and signed hundreds of artists to his music label, expecting most to fail, so that a few would become wildly successful.
- Reputation, brand equity, email lists, and follower counts can all function as tradeable currency, not just time and cash.
- A company that raises money at a $10 million valuation can use its own shares as currency to acquire another $10 million company without spending cash.
- Reverse engineering the future means projecting three years out and working backward to today, instead of extrapolating forward from where you currently stand.
- One billionaire auditioned 10,000 people to find a single hire who was a step-change better than merely good, citing that a thousand good musicians cannot write one symphony but Beethoven wrote nine.
- Billionaires are constantly scouting four types of people: those with distribution, talented leaders, talented practitioners, and pools of capital.
- Human motivation is roughly 30 percent pulled by positive vision and 70 percent pushed by the desire to defeat a named enemy, and top operators deliberately use both.
- The economy does not reward value alone, it rewards value delivered at scale, a nurse or teacher can be extremely valuable but can only serve one person at a time.
- Value scales through four channels: intellectual property and media rights, owned distribution channels, trained armies of people, and software.
- Most highly successful people are not quietly wealthy or undercover, they deliberately position themselves as the highest-value person in every room they enter.
- Roughly nine times out of ten, a wealthy person's biography includes a distinct exit event, whether a full sale, a staged sell-down, or a liquidity event.
- An exit doesn't just return money, it returns time plus a completed learning cycle that positions someone to build something bigger next.
- A business built five or ten years ago is running on the best thinking its founder had at that time, which is one reason holding on too long can cap the next breakthrough.
Wealth patterns are habits you can start practicing now.
WHAT TO LEARN
The gap between ordinary and extreme success comes less from luck itself and more from systematically improving the odds, building scalable value, and knowing when to exit.
- Treat luck as something you can shift the odds of, not wait for, by pitching more people, meeting more high-achievers, and studying live trends.
- Look beyond time and cash for currency you already have, including reputation, an audience, or equity, and consider how it could be used to acquire or trade for something else.
- Define a specific picture of where you want to be in three years, then work backward to this year, this quarter, and this week instead of just extrapolating from the past.
- When hiring for a critical role, widen the funnel dramatically rather than settling for the first good candidate, since the gap between good and exceptional compounds over time.
- Pair a positive vision with a clearly named competitor or obstacle, since avoidance is a stronger motivator for most people than aspiration alone.
- Audit whether your work rewards effort or scales without your direct time, and look at intellectual property, distribution, trained teams, or software as the four main scale levers.
- Build visible credibility markers deliberately, since most highly successful people are known quantities in their rooms rather than intentionally invisible.
- Plan for an eventual exit rather than holding a venture indefinitely, since the exit is what returns both time and compounding lessons for the next attempt.
Terms worth knowing.
- Reverse engineering the future
- Starting from a vivid, specific picture of where you want to be in three years, then working backward to define what needs to happen this year, this quarter, and this week.
- Value at scale
- Delivering value to many people simultaneously through leverage such as content, software, or trained teams, rather than value that requires one-to-one delivery of your own time.
- High-value positioning
- Deliberately being recognized as the most valuable or credible person in a room through visible signals like awards, publications, or talks, rather than staying anonymous.
- Exit event
- A defined moment when a founder sells a company, sells down equity, or otherwise converts built-up value into liquidity, freeing up both money and time.
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“This morning, I had breakfast with a billionaire, and this is not a rare event for me.”
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“A thousand good musicians cannot write a single symphony, but Beethoven wrote nine of them.”
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“Human beings are motivated a little bit by positivity and a lot by negativity.”
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“The economy does not reward value. It only rewards value at scale.”
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00:00This morning, I had breakfast with a billionaire, and this is not a rare event for me. I have had the opportunity to hang out with some of the world's most ultra wealthy people, and I can tell you a little bit behind the scenes what are some of the things they talk about that are the most important things that have got them to that crazy high level.
00:16Now these are things you can apply to. These are not things that you need to wait until you are a billionaire. These are the types of things that actually accelerate you towards bigger financial outcomes as well.
00:27Now the first thing that I've learned from being around the top 0001% of people in the economy is that they are incredibly lucky, but they are in control of that luck. Luck is a massive role in success, and all of us are gonna experience varying degrees of luck.
00:42But here's the interesting thing about luck. Lucky is not something that is an on off switch. , and there's something called the odds of luck happening.
00:49So there's not just lucky breaks. There's the odds of a lucky break. You're not in control of the lucky break, but you are in control of improving the odds.
00:57So this is something that billionaires absolutely understand, the difference between luck and improving the odds. So if I sit at home on the couch doomscrolling or watching Netflix, I have reduced the odds of anything lucky happening today.
01:10If I go out networking, I go out to a private dining experience with a group of interesting people, I've just increased the odds of luck happening. So the simple idea here is what can you be doing to increase the odds of luck? And let me give you a few things.
01:23The more people you pitch to where you tell them what it is you're trying to achieve, the luckier you get. The more people you hang out with who are achieving big things, the luckier you get. The more you study trends and you understand what are the current trends and what are the things that are happening in the world that are very, very on brand, on market that are creating new success stories, the luckier you get.
01:42So you can be doing things that improve your luck at any given time. Now, I can't tell you that that lucky break's gonna arrive on Tuesday at 3PM, but I can tell you if you keep doing things that improve the odds, you are going to eventually have a lucky break whenever that shows up. Now one person who massively talks about luck all the time is Richard Branson.
02:02If you ask Richard Branson how he became Richard Branson, he talks about a series of lucky breaks. Lucky timing, lucky experiences, lucky people in his life.
02:09He talks a lot about the fact that he has been an incredibly lucky guy. But what people rarely pick up on is that he put so many irons in the fire that one of them was eventually gonna become lucky. He started 400 companies and a lot of them failed, but a couple of them became wildly successful.
02:24He signed up hundreds of artists to his music label, and most of them did not become superstars, but a few of them became superstars. He was doing a lot of things, and he was doing enough things where he increased the odds of one of those things being wildly successful. So here's the question.
02:40Are you starting enough companies? Are you creating enough new products? Are you out there pitching?
02:45Are you creating a video on YouTube that explains who you are and what you do and why it's valuable? Are you putting yourself out there enough? Like, all of those things are impacting your odds of success actually finally showing up.
02:55And if you're not doing many of those things, you are massively diminishing your odds of success. So if you wanna be like billionaires, recognize that you are not in control of when luck shows up, but you are in control of the odds. The second thing that I've noticed about billionaires or the top o 1% is that they create their own currencies.
03:12They create new currencies that didn't previously exist, and they can use those currencies however they like. Now quite literally, one billionaire friend of mine is one of the early stage people in the Bitcoin space and has actually created a series of all sorts of Bitcoin related currencies, but that's not what I'm talking about.
03:28What I'm talking about is things like reputation and brand. Some of the billionaires I know, they built such a powerful reputation that simply their involvement at a board level or being a strategic adviser or being an angel investor has an outsized influence.
03:41They know that it has that influence, and therefore they treat that like a currency. I know some people who've built a whopping big email list where they can push send on 600,000 people and they can absolutely get something oversubscribed.
03:53They can launch something at speed. And because they can launch it at speed, they can take an equity stake in someone's business just by clicking send. So they're looking to create these alternative currencies.
04:03One of the things that almost all billionaires have done is that they've financialized the value of their company. They've actually raised money from angel investors or VCs, and by doing so, have set the value of their company at a certain threshold. That means the shares are worth something.
04:17If they wanna use those shares to acquire something, they can use those shares as a form of currency. So for example, if someone sells 10% of their company for 10,000,000, that values the whole company to a 100,000,000.
04:28If they wanna use another 10% of their company to go and buy a $10,000,000 company, they can say, hey, we're gonna do a share swap where we use the shares in this company to buy the shares in this company and now we've used this made up currency that we invented, which is these these company shares to go and acquire this real other asset over here, which is another company shares.
04:47So the ability to create currencies. Now what most people do is they think that there are only a few currencies that really exist. They treat their time as a currency, which means they're willing to trade their time.
04:57They treat British pounds or US dollars or Japanese yen or euros as a currency, which means that they will trade their time for any of those currencies. And that is a basic, very low level way to view currency. What if you could actually think outside the box and say, my shares could be a currency, my reputation could be a currency, my brand, my database, my social media following?
05:18All of these things could be used as a currency to acquire stakes in ventures. Now you might think that this is something that only some billionaire could do when they float on the Nasdaq. This is not true at all.
05:30I've seen startups launch a business. They bring together an advisory board. They bring together someone who does a commitment for a distribution agreement.
05:37Based on those few commitments, they raise some money from angel investors, and those angel investors value the business at $4.05, 6,000,000 and invest at that value. And as soon as all of that happens, they now have a currency. They can use that currency to incentivize a great person to join the team or to do an acquisition, all sorts of different things.
05:55In this new digital economy, even something like follow account can be a currency. If I've got 30 or 40,000 followers on LinkedIn, then that could be used as a influencing chip to get myself on a board seat and it could be used to get a stake in the business. It could be used to justify the value of my time.
06:13I could then use the value of that time to take shares instead of cash flow. Right? There's all sorts of things that I can do just by building that currency.
06:21The next one I wanna share with you is the difference between reverse engineering the future and forward engineering the past. Forward engineering the past is what most people do. They think about what is the past?
06:30What have I done up until this point? What do I do tomorrow? Reverse engineering the future is a different way of thinking about things.
06:36It's about projecting yourself forward three years into the future and thinking exactly what it is that you're trying to build. This is where you know how many people are on the team, how much revenue you do, how much profit you do, what products you sell, what intellectual property you've got, what your cap table might look like, who's invested in your business.
06:53All of that is suddenly forecasted forward into the future, and you create a vivid picture as to what the future will look like, and then you reverse engineer backwards from the future. So you say, okay.
07:03If that was true three years from now, what would it be like two years from now? What would it be like one year from now? What would it be like in six months, in three months, in one week from now?
07:10And the ability to reverse engineer backwards from the future to today is super powerful. Now, when billionaires do this, they always think to themselves, okay, part of this reverse engineering process is I need $10,000,000 worth of investment. So I'm gonna tell some people about this vision for the future and I'm gonna tell them if you invest your 10,000,000, then we'll be able to unlock that amazing future and you'll be part of it.
07:32People buy into it. They might say, oh, part of this is that I need an amazing CEO to run the company. So they go to the CEO, they tell the CEO, this is the vision, this is where we're gonna be three years from now, and then they show their plan as to how they're gonna get there, and they say, we need one of these CEOs.
07:46Would you like to be that CEO? We've got a list of potential great CEOs. You'd be one of those people.
07:51Would you be interested in being the CEO to get us to that point? They're reverse engineering the future. Have they've got a clear vision.
07:56They're putting the pieces in place, and they're telling people, this is what we're trying to achieve in the future. These are the steps along the way. This is the role that I want you to play.
08:03Right? And they're building it from the future backwards. They don't care where they are today.
08:08Most billionaires, you could take everything off them and they would just rebuild it all back again because they don't care about the past. They care about the future that they're trying to create. They're gonna mobilize all the resources that they need in order to achieve the future state that they've designed.
08:21Now because these billionaires create this vivid vision of the future, they are expert storytellers. They are explaining what they're seeing in their mind, and they're enrolling you into that vision.
08:32Every single person they meet gets the story. They get told this is what we're building. This is what it's gonna look like.
08:37And the excitement, the enthusiasm, they have this infectious with or without you energy where you can either join or not because it's happening regardless. And you don't have to think too hard about what it's all gonna look like because the billionaire tells you this is what it's gonna be like.
08:51These are the steps along the way. This is the role that you're invited to play if you want to, and it becomes so so clear. Now this comes to the next piece, which is enrolling people into their vision and enrolling people onto their team.
09:02See, billionaires and multi multi millionaires, they don't do a lot themselves because they know that it's impossible to do it all on your own. If they've got a big vision, and that big vision is gonna literally require 500 people to coordinate themselves together, it's gonna require capital. It's gonna require talent.
09:18It's gonna require all of those things. The minute that they start doing that themselves is the minute that they don't have any time available to enroll people. So the way that these billionaires work and the way that they think is that they see themselves as the organizing force to bring people together and to get things done through people.
09:35So the power of storytelling is to create alignment. The reason that they're great storytellers is because they're creating an aligned vision, an aligned action amongst everyone they come in contact with.
09:46If they see you as a great salesperson, their job is to try and enroll you in that vision to get you using your sales skills to sell the damn thing. If they see you as a potential investor, their job is to enroll you in the vision so that they can access the capital to get this thing done.
10:00Even if they had the skills, they wouldn't use the skills because as soon as they put their hands onto something, they're not free to enroll people and get people aligned. They see their job is the job of enrolling and aligning people, not doing the work themselves.
10:14Now one of the billionaires that I spend a lot of time with, he loves talent. He will look at 10,000 people to find that one person who's 1% better than the best.
10:24He once said to me that a thousand good musicians cannot write a single symphony, but Beethoven wrote nine of them. And he told me that the difference between good and great is exponentially different.
10:36And he believes his whole job is to identify, recruit, enroll, and align talented people towards really big outcomes. And he spends all of his time trying to find those Beethoven's amongst the good musicians. He was ferocious in his ability to get the talented individual.
10:52He was looking for one person, but he didn't try and find that one person. He got a thousand people to apply for the role, and he tested the heck out of them in order to find the one in a thousand. And as a result, his latest startup went up to be worth over 2 and a half billion.
11:07Let me give you the four types of people that the billionaires are always on the lookout in order to enroll. Number one is distribution, the ability to distribute things into markets.
11:16They wanna know who are the people who've got a 100,000 followers, who are the people who've got a million email addresses, who are the people who've already got a million hits to their website every week. They're looking for people who have access to distribution. They're keeping a list in their phone of all the people they know who can easily distribute something out to a lot of people.
11:34So distribution is number one. Number two is they're looking for highly talented leaders. Right?
11:39People who can lead projects. It might be a sales leader. It might be a tech leader or a product leader or it might be a CFO.
11:45Right? So think executives. Think people who can lead teams.
11:49Number three is highly talented practitioners, highly talented execution. So it could be the absolute standout engineer. It could be the unbelievably good singer.
11:59It could be the artist. It could be the salesperson. It's the person who can actually execute the thing at a level that most people couldn't even dream of.
12:07And last one that I wanna share with you is pools of capital. Who has access to money? Right?
12:11Who are the angel investors? Who are the VC investors? Who are the people who've got access to the exit where they can sell the company for billions?
12:18They wanna know who's got capital and which category does it fall into? What's their criteria for investment or acquisition? And they're constantly on the lookout for those pools of capital.
12:27See, a great business is a collection of exceptional people. That's all it is. It's not about the brand or the logo or the story.
12:34It's about people who come together. If there are no people getting excited about this business, you don't have a business. I know that's a strange thing to say in the age of AI.
12:43I know we like to think about the idea that AI is gonna do everything. That's not what a great company is. A great company is great people.
12:50It could be a small team, it could be a bigger team, but it's going to be great people. It's when people get excited about something, it's when people get into alignment that magic happens. Now even if AI comes in and takes over industries, that will create a massive deflationary effect and it'll free up time and people to get aligned about the next big thing that humanity does.
13:08It will always be about people getting into alignment. So the next one is once you've got people, you need to create an enemy. Now here's the thing.
13:16I have noticed that millionaires create outcomes. Millionaires create visions.
13:21Millionaires create dashboards. Millionaires create all the carrots for people to move towards, billionaires create enemies, billionaires create sticks to run away from, billionaires are the ones who actually know how to use the carrot and the stick.
13:36And what they do is they create an enemy. They know what they stand for, but they also know what they stand against. And in some cases, they create an enemy that the entire team wants to rise up against.
13:46They understand the dark side of motivation. They don't just use the 30% of people's energy which is moving towards something. They know how to go to the dark side that has 70% of people's motivations which is the desire to vanquish an enemy.
14:00Now whether you like it or not, human beings are motivated a little bit by positivity and a lot by negativity. You can get people to do all sorts of things that they never would have done if they have the right enemy that they wanna beat.
14:12And billionaires know how to leverage the dark side and the light side. Let me give you some examples. Richard Branson created an enemy out of British Airways.
14:19His whole team wanted to beat British Airways. Steve Jobs in 1984, he wanted to go up against IBM.
14:26My friend, the billionaire this morning, he's out there to change the system. He wants to make political change and he has political enemies that he's going after. And you should see the way he grits his teeth when he talks about their names.
14:39Now you can do this as a small business. I've got a friend of mine who has a small chain of coffee shops and they've made Starbucks the enemy. And they've enrolled their entire team to outperform Starbucks and to be 10 times better than the local Starbucks and to make sure everyone knows about it.
14:53My barber who cuts my hair, he is absolutely furious at the barber shop across the road, and he wants to be 10 times better than that barbershop. Don't just think what you're moving towards, think what you're moving away from as well. Okay.
15:04Now the next one is about creating value at scale. See, here's the uncomfortable truth. Most of us know how to be valuable, but we don't know how to be valuable at scale.
15:12Some of the most valuable people in the economy are nurses and teachers, and they're so valuable, but you have to be in the same room as them. And they can only work with one person at a time. Billionaires and o o o 1% entrepreneurs, they know how to be valuable for a lot of people all at once.
15:28They leverage anything that allows them to be more valuable at scale. Even being on this YouTube channel is me trying to do value at scale. I could have a one on one conversation with one entrepreneur or I can have a one on one conversation with a camera.
15:40A few thousand people see it. That's value at scale. The thing with billionaires is they know that the economy does not reward value.
15:46It only rewards value at scale. And they know how to play both of those games. More value at greater scale than anyone could possibly imagine.
15:54Let me give you four ways that billionaires think about scale. The first one is intellectual property. Intellectual property is anything like patents or brands, but it can also be content.
16:03So intellectual property could be book rights or royalty rights to songs. It could be video content that you actually can put out into distribution channels, right, where you're capturing something of value in a scalable format. So think all things intellectual property from the written to the visual to the movies, patents to systems to franchise manuals.
16:23All of that is intellectual property and media rights. That is something that is valuable that can scale. The next one is owning distribution channels, right, or scaling through distribution.
16:33It's the ability to have subscribers or followers or lists. It's the ability to have retail chains. It's the ability to have web websites that people buy from.
16:41Anything where you own or control the distribution is giving you more scale for you to put value through that chain. The next one is people. If you can have a trained up army of people and those people go out and behave exactly the way that you want, that is scale.
16:54One of my billionaire friends credited an army of people who could deliver home services. So you can train up armies of people who can deliver the through those people. The final one is software.
17:06This is the big one. It's the ability to create code that is valuable at scale. See, if you can get the code to do a particular thing, if you can create code that does a particular outcome, suddenly that outcome is available all over the world to anyone who's got access to the Internet, and that means that anything that you code into existence that really works that delivers value is instantly scalable.
17:26It's no surprise that some of the most wealthy, successful people in the world have created their wealth through software because it is value at scale in its DNA. See, simple scales and complexity hits walls really fast. So billionaires are always thinking value at scale, so they're always thinking about simplify, simplify, simplify.
17:43How do I create something that's simple enough to scale? Whereas smaller entrepreneurs, they're constantly thinking about complexity. They wanna make it up from scratch every single time.
17:51If you want scale, you need to simplify a particular way of doing things so that it can be done that way anywhere in the world. Alright. A second last one that I wanna share with you is about high value positioning.
18:02High value positioning is being known in every single room as the high value person in that room. And I'm gonna tell you a little bit of a dark secret, which is the most successful people that I know are very, good at high value positioning. They know how to show up as the key person of influence.
18:17They don't often show up and sit in the audience undercover. They make sure that they are known to all the right people. They know how to arrive in style.
18:23They know how to show up in style. They know how to be positioned in style. Right?
18:27They know how to be perceived and positioned as a high value person in any particular setting. And it's important for them to do that. They wanna meet on their terms.
18:36They wanna meet with the framing of being a high value person. They do things like win awards. They do things like get known within their industry.
18:44They do things like write books, right, and give talks and give speeches because they're looking for that high value positioning instantly gives them some standout qualities. Now I've seen the videos where people talk about quiet wealth and secret will wealth and the billionaire who's like super undercover and nobody knows who they are.
19:02Now that is the exception to the rule because I have been in rooms with these super successful entrepreneurs and investors. Everyone knows that they're there because they set it up that way. I would go so far as to say that the vast majority of these people when they are in a room, they like to be positioned as the highest value person in the room.
19:19Now the final thing I wanna share with you is the value of exits. Almost all of the extremely wealthy people that I know have built something and eventually sold it. They sold their company or they sold down their shares or they had a building and they sold their building or they created some sort of cryptocurrency and they sold off the cryptocurrency or they launched a company and they sold parts of the company, but they actually sold the thing that they had built all their value into.
19:43There was an exit event. Now we always hear about the entrepreneurs who run the business and they make the sales and they generate the leads and they build the team, create a brand and they do all of those things that you would call running the business, but very, very rarely do we hear the story about selling the business.
19:59Now, go and read the biographies of all the wealthiest people and go look closely and you will discover that there is nine times out of 10 an exit event. They either sold the business in one big transaction, they sold it down in stages, or there was some big event that came along that gave them liquidity.
20:15Something happened that changed the game and leveled them up, which is an exit event. Now as a result of that exit event, they got two things. They didn't just get the money from selling, they also got their time back, and they got their time back at a time where they had new lessons.
20:28So imagine what it's like to sell a company. You've now got money. You've completed a whole cycle.
20:33And in completing that whole cycle, you can reflect and say, what would I do better or more differently or faster than before in order to get an even bigger, better result next time. And it's those multiple learning rounds that go with exits that really set people apart. It's the ability to look back and say, hey, I can break this into stages.
20:50I wish I had have done this at this point. Maybe I could have gone bigger if I had have done it at this point. Now I've got the time.
20:55Now I've got the money. I can go again. And this is very very common to the most successful people.
21:00More often than not, they've had many exits that have led up to the big exits that have led up to the big big thing that they're known for. So in many cases, I look at entrepreneurs and they're holding on too tight. They started something five, ten, fifteen years ago.
21:14It was great at the time, but they should have sold it seven or eight years ago. They should have had an exit by now. They should have gotten the time and the money.
21:21Even if it was a small exit, even if they sold it for half 1,000,000 or 1,000,000 just simply to have their time and their money back plus the learnings, they could go off and start something that would be worth 5,000,000 the next time just simply because they've got the time, the money, and the learnings. They could do something 50,000,000 the time after that.
21:35But if they never exit, if they never clear the decks, if they never consolidate their learnings and their finances, it's unlikely that they ever get that next big breakthrough. Right? Because the current business that you've got is based on the best thinking that you had five years ago and the next thing that you do is based on all of the learnings you've had ever since.
21:52So it may be time to draw a line under it and to actually exit it and then go do something bigger and better than ever before because that is what I see the billionaires do. Okay. I hope you enjoyed that video and I've got another one that I think you should watch next which is this one right here.
22:06And the reason that I say that is because everyone who uses this playbook makes a million dollars. I think you're gonna enjoy it. Check it out.
22:13I hope your business is doing really, really well. Make sure you subscribe to the channel, and I'll
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Daniel Priestley opens by casually mentioning this morning's breakfast with a billionaire, then spends twenty-two minutes unpacking nine patterns he's noticed repeat across the ultra-wealthy people he spends time with, from how they engineer luck to how they always seem to have an exit planned.
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