Hey entrepreneur,
Here's a stat that should scare every fast-growing founder:
67% of Inc. 500 companies fail within five years.
Compare that to regular startups, where the failure rate is only 48%.
Think about that.
The "fastest-growing companies in America" actually fail at a HIGHER rate than normal businesses.
I lived this statistic.
In 2016, I had three companies hit the Inc. 500 list simultaneously.
One crashed and burned.
One got sold to a competitor for pennies.
One succeeded.
That's the 67% failure rate in real life.
Here's what I learned:
Growth doesn't fix broken systems. It exposes them.
More revenue means more complexity. More team members mean more chaos. More customers mean more problems.
And if you're the system holding everything together?
You become the bottleneck.
That's why I stopped chasing growth and started building systems instead.
The result? Six companies. $200M in combined revenue. And I work less than I did when I had one $5M business.
I documented the entire operating system in a new case study.
Get the case study here
You'll see:
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Why "document everything" doesn't work (and what does)
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How to build a team that doesn't need you in every decision
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The exact tools we use to scale six companies at once
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Why hiring "rockstars" before you have systems always fails
This isn't theory. It's the system we're using right now to scale a $200M holding company.
Download it. Read it. Then decide if you want to keep being the bottleneck.
-Ryan
P.S. If you're generating $2M–$20M and feel stuck in the day-to-day, this system was built for you. Get it here: https://scalable.co/sos-manifesto/
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