Alex Hormozi
Founder & Managing Partner, Acquisition.com. On 2 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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After scaling and exiting businesses such as Gym Launch and Prestige Labs, he co-founded Acquisition.com, a holding and investment firm backing cash-flowing, asset-light companies. He is also known for business books including $100M Offers and $100M Leads, and his investment in Skool.
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119said about them ↓ Everything Alex Hormozi said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Hormozi: Fast-scaling $100M e-commerce brands rely on decentralized UGC and AI screening
“Those guys are all completely the ones who are crushing it, going to zero to a hundred million plus in call it like 12 to 24 months. Like all the companies that are running the same playbook is decentralized. UGC with kind of like AI backend for screening for …”
Hormozi: 1,200 people applied for Bryan Johnson's $1M/year longevity program
“He had 1200 people apply for his million dollar per year thing. 1200.”
Hormozi: Businesses can generate half their revenue from the top 1% of customers
“Customers are super fractal, right? And so, you can absolutely make the same amount from one percent of your customers as you can from the other 99, and have half your revenue from one.”
Hormozi: Founders can become billionaires in almost any boring business
“Unless you want to be a trillionaire, like you can be a billionaire in just about any boring business.”
Hormozi: The ideal morning routine compresses waking to starting work
“How, how much you can compress the time from waking to beginning work is the ideal.”
Hormozi: Influencer credibility requirements scale with audience risk
“The amount of legitimacy that you need to be an influencer depends on the risk that the consumer has in taking action on the nature of the content that you're making.”
Alex Hormozi: Instagram views are worth 10x to 20x more than TikTok
“Also your TikTok views are not worth nearly Close to what your Instagram views are. It's probably a factor of 10 to 20 X difference in terms of the value per view, especially if it's a little bit more meme, a little bit more humor, any like that.”
Hormozi: Acquired founders average 13x return on retained equity
“I just ran our stats this last weekend. Our average founder return on equity. So post deal, how much more is their slice worth? Like every PE buyer says, listen, and you could make more on the second bite, right? So everyone's like the same pitch, right? So ou…”
Hormozi: Spreading out thinking time increases idea density in books
“I'm a big believer in surface area of thought. Like if you were to sit down and say like, I'm gonna write a book about this and then you have two weeks, it's like, you don't have enough experiences that are diverse in a two week period while you're writing to …”
Hormozi: Document lessons in real time before losing critical details
“I think you miss out on the wrinkles, like the tiny little details that like, if you think about like the story of how you met your wife and you go back, like you've told it a bunch of times, but if you told it the day after you did it, you'd have so much rich…”
Hormozi uses windowless, soundproof workspaces to eliminate sensory stimulation
“Where I work, it's almost all, how do I eliminate every sense of distraction for me personally? And so it's like, I don't have windows. Some people like having windows. I don't think anything wrong with that for me. It's like, I need no stimulation because I'm…”
Hormozi: Dave Ramsey's unspoken advantage is 600 syndicated radio stations
“I think one of the biggest, like unspoken advantages that exists right now in media is Dave Ramsey has been murdering for 3040 years because he has 600 radio stations indicated.”
Hormozi: Media strategy is a barbell of Mona Lisa polish versus raw volume
“I think it's barbell. So it's either like make it the Mona Lisa and like play to win that game, or you're in the volume game and the volume is just value per second and just trying to get as many of those seconds out as you possibly can.”
Hormozi: Med spas must structure technician pay like partner firms
“They're not loyal to the business. They're loyal to the girl who does her injections or does their lasers or whatever. And so it's like, we just got to tie those people in like a partner firm.”
Hormozi: AI creates temporary window for massive service business profit margins
“Revenue per headcount on service based businesses should decrease, which means margin should go up. Now there's this great opportunity window right now where prices aren't really going to adjust for a minute, which means that your margins get absolutely stupid…”
Hormozi: Telling the whole truth is the simplest media strategy for business changes
“I think the absolute simplest media strategy for any kind of change is the whole truth, not half truth.”
Hormozi: Business owners fail to scale prices by selling out of their own wallets
“I think making offers available to people, that is where business owners like struggle. They feel weird about it and they sell out of their own wallet when it's just like, just make them available and state the facts and tell the truth.”
Hormozi: Acquisition.com advisory practice did $36M EBITDA in year one
“We started the advisory practice in January of 24. And I think we did thirty six million in EBITDA year one, just on that one unit.”
Hormozi: Acquisition.com stopped passive investing to focus on brand-backed equity
“We stopped doing Deals that we were just investors in. And now it's brand plus capital plus work. And I'd rather have fewer eggs that we're going to get huge outsized returns on”
Hormozi: Skool has 30M users and over $1B in GMV
“School has, you know, we have thirty million users now. And you know, we have a billion plus GMV, like it's a very big platform.”
Hormozi sold his company for $46.2 million to establish credibility
“When I sold my company for 46.2 million and then people were like, oh, this guy actually knows what he's talking about.”
Alex Hormozi: Simple 60-second iPhone narrative ads work well on Meta
“Advertising works. It's not like meta ads don't work, right? It's like you just needed to get the process down. But if you just do a very simple narrative ad with your iPhone demonstrating the product and the problem that it solves and keep it under 60 seconds…”
The other half of the tape: Alex Hormozi's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 113 times in 31 episodes across the shows. 6 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Sam Parr 36Leila Hormozi 35Shaan Puri 25Jordi Hays 9Greg Isenberg 2Codie Sanchez 1
Statements about Alex Hormozi, by other people (6)
Puri: Alex Hormozi made $100M in one weekend from book launch
“His last book launch, he just did it about a month ago. His last book launch sold three million copies. And with all the add on courses he added to it, he made a hundred million dollars in a single weekend, a hundred million dollars as one guy.”
Puri: True business success does not require Goggins or Hormozi's grind-culture suffering
“I'm trying to figure out how to brand the hybrid athlete of business where you have the success, but you don't have the, like, grind culture suffering mindset, right? Like the Goggins, Hormozzi, like, it's just about pain, and that's what it is, and you need t…”
An early business partner stole Gym Launch's initial gym revenue
“Then his business partner gets access to the bank account where we've been putting all the money from these gyms, steals the money.”
Puri: Alex Hormozi will make far more from brand fame than workshops
“Really what he's done is he's using that as a farm system to produce clips and content, and the content grows his brand, and he's going to make way more off his brand being famous than he is off those workshops in the end.”
Puri: Founders must balance long-term mission patience with short-term task urgency
“Yeah, I think it's sort of a, like long-term patience, as in you're not gonna give up, and you're gonna stay at it. I think short-term maniacal sense of urgency is, you know, on the task. So it's like patient with the mission and maniacal about the task is, is…”
Shaan Puri: Scaling success requires rejecting equal-rate opportunities for 10x upside
“The hard thing is when you're making a hundred grand and somebody comes to you and says, here's the thing that can make a hundred grand. And you're like, that's my rate. But what happens is you now, you've now split your focus and you're basically, you're losi…”
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2025 14 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
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- This guy made Millions by inventing the $1 Menu
- How the smartest founders are winning in AI
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2024 75 mentions in 9 episodes 8 per episode
- Leila Hormozi: From Minimum Wage Employee to $100M Net Worth By 29
- How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- It’s The Most Taboo Business Model We’ve Ever Seen
- CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
- Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
- How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 5 Internet Goldmines To Spot The Next $1B Trend | Steph Smith (#529)
- How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details) (#534)
- 4 Profitable Business Ideas That Men Are Sleeping On | ft. Codie Sanchez (#512)
- Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410)
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Alex's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| TBPNLEDGER | Founder & Managing Partner, Acquisition.com | 1 | 21 | 50% 1/2 | full record on TBPN → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Founder & Managing Partner, Acquisition.com | 2 | 19 | — | full record on My First Million → |