My First Million
The best business ideas come from noticing what's working and doing it better, faster, or for a different audience.
“it's impossible to do what I'm doing better than me because I'm gonna spend 10 times more”
What It Means
Creating unbeatable competitive position by outspending and out-obsessing competitors rather than relying on skill alone
Why It Matters
Demonstrates how combining extreme resource commitment with obsessive focus creates sustainable competitive moats
When It's True
When you have sufficient resources and the market rewards quality/scale over efficiency
When It's Risky
If resources are limited, market conditions change rapidly, or competitors can match your spending
How to Apply
Identify your key competitive battleground
Calculate maximum sustainable investment level
Commit to outspending competitors by significant margin
Reinvest all profits back into competitive advantage
Think in decades not years for investment payback
Example Scenario
“A content creator reinvests 90% of revenue back into production quality and team while competitors take profits, eventually building insurmountable quality gap”
Related Knowledge
The Clone Creation Framework
A system for replicating high-performance decision-making by having new hires shadow the founder 24/7 for six months, then gradually taking on responsibilities while maintaining the founder's thinking patterns.
Achieve 10x results by saying no to 1000x more opportunities than competitors
You operate fewer projects than before but each generates exponentially better results because of concentrated resources and attention.
Total Addressable Mindset (TAM Thinking)
Always evaluate opportunities based on the maximum possible audience size, choosing only ideas that can theoretically ap
Extreme focus beats diversification for breakthrough results
Most successful people are saying no to far more opportunities than they're saying yes to
I only have three goals this year grow the channel get big and sell chocolate
Extreme focus on just 3 objectives rather than pursuing multiple opportunities simultaneously
Having children significantly reduces entrepreneurial ambition and achievement potential for most pe
Children require massive time, emotional energy, and mental bandwidth that would otherwise be available for business building.