Dan Martell - March 05, 2024


The #1 Question To Ask In Business

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Dan Martell
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Episode Stats


Length

56 seconds

Words per minute

220.15

Word count

209

Sentence count

12


Summary

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If somebody bought your business tomorrow, what would they change? And then the follow-up to that question is, why haven t you made that decision yet? That's the conversation I want to have. A business is valuable to its ability to generate positive cash flow in a predictable way.

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00:00:00.000 The one question everybody should be asking themselves often is if somebody bought your business tomorrow, what would they change?
00:00:06.120 And then the follow-up to that question is, why haven't you made that decision?
00:00:09.900 That's the conversation I want to have.
00:00:11.460 A business is valuable to its ability to generate positive cash flow in a predictable way.
00:00:16.380 The reason why software companies sell for 10x top line revenue, if you're at scale, is because there's a predictable positive cash flow process being done.
00:00:25.260 The reason why a guru business is less valuable
00:00:28.320 if they're still involved
00:00:29.540 is because when you take the person out,
00:00:31.760 there's no predictability.
00:00:32.980 I wanna build businesses that can be bought
00:00:35.260 because they're fun to run.
00:00:38.000 So I'm always asking myself that question.
00:00:39.860 Somebody bought my business tomorrow,
00:00:40.880 what would they change?
00:00:41.720 Well, they would make sure that Dan's not involved
00:00:43.480 in any of the marketing.
00:00:44.620 Cool.
00:00:45.000 How do you remove Dan out of the marketing?
00:00:46.520 Perfect.
00:00:46.960 Dan has to be removed out of the delivery
00:00:48.520 so there's no bottlenecks
00:00:49.620 so that products can be built and created.
00:00:51.680 Cool.
00:00:52.200 All right, now I get to be the CEO of a company
00:00:54.360 that grows even if I'm on Croatia for two and a half weeks.