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These 4 Math Equations Will Make You A Millionaire | Alex Hormozi

2025-08-06 Entertainment
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Decoding Alex Hormozi's Money Models: Financing Growth Through Customer Economics

Learn the deliberate sequence of offers Hormozi attributes to massive business growth, allowing you to finance customer acquisition directly from your first sale.

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  • Achieve customer acquisition financing by ensuring gross profit recoups costs quickly (targeting $2 \times \text{CAC} + \text{COGS}$ within 30 days).
  • Maximize customer value by identifying the perfect time to sell: target the point of greatest deprivation, not always greatest perceived value.
  • Leverage codified offer sequencing (Attraction, Upsell, Downsell, Continuity) to systematically unlock latent revenue potential in every lead.

This discussion unpacks the economic mechanics behind Alex Hormozi’s growth methodology outlined in "$100M Money Models." Shaan Puri and Hormozi dissect how to structure your offers so that acquiring one customer funds the acquisition of the next. Readers gain actionable frameworks for improving lead generation, maximizing immediate revenue per customer, and removing capital constraints from business expansion.

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*Want to start your own business with less than $1k? Get the playbook here: https://clickhubspot.com/azh* Episode 732: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Alex Hormozi ( https://x.com/alexhormozi ) to talk about his newest book, $100M Money Models. The book will teach you how to get more customers to spend more, in less time, over and over again, ultimately eliminating cash flow as a constraint to growth of any business. $100M Money Models, launches at a live virtual event Saturday August 16th. Register free: https://register.acq.com — Show Notes: (0:00) Money Models (9:34) Sell When Pain Is Highest (14:00) Live coaching: Rebuilding Shaan’s Business (30:04) What most founder get wrong (37:55) Make it or Take It: Tough Questions (55:09) What Hormozi is obsessed with now (1:08:51) Playing the YouTube game — Links: • Acquisition - https://www.acquisition.com/ • Somewhere - https://somewhere.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Top Comments (10)

@indieBen 2025-08-15

My biggest takeaway from Alex Hormozi since I discovered him a couple years ago is when he says you need to focus on only 1 project at a time and put all your energy on it. For years I tried to do too many things at a time and it was obviously not really working. Now I finally started to focus on only one project and it works much better ! ( And it's also more relaxing mentally )

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@LivingInCharlotteTeam 2025-08-11

I’ve seen a ton of Alex, and a ton of Shaan and Sam, but this showed a new fun side of both of them. Loved the video.

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@darshit_poriya 2025-08-09

I like the way you took a real business example and then applied the money model so that everyone else could understand. This is really, very useful, Shaan.

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@clssc_tio 2025-08-10

This was a banger. I was walking in the park in a thinking circle, smoking a pre-roll, with my cylinders firing. I watch yall every week bit this one was amazing because it was ideas with steps that are hella practical. Wait till you see the monster you have created.

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@FloydTaylor 2025-08-11

Watched this twice, believing there were four math equations, and I missed three of them (I listened to it the first time). Saying there are four is a misnomer. There's only one math equation. Gross profit in 30 days > 2 x (CAC + COGS). That formula is a working capital problem. You don't need working capital when the gross profit is enough to acquire and service the next customer. It allows you to scale quickly and profitably. Alex uses 30 days as a measure, but really, it would be Gross profit within your cash conversion cycle, which you would hope is under 30 days, but it could be greater than or less than 30 days. Rewritten, it would be Gross profit in Cash Conversion Cycle > 2 x (CAC + COGS)

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@Molloy1951 2025-08-23

Hormozi is the most successful average bro of all time.

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@shay7058 2025-08-09

I really enjoyed the podcast, the questions and the off script conversation at the end 👍

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@AlainMarleyB 2025-08-07

Bro is everywhere. Show up on his live event. It will get your friend some bonuses!

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@cheflev9884 2025-08-09

This was an amazing pod and I’m really looking forward to Alex’s book launch. Btw has any one else noticed that Alex looks gassed at the end of this pod? I’m sure he’s been working none stop in preparation for the event. His reactions reminded me of when I would get off the pass at the end of service and be just like “whaaat”

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@loostinpro7968 2025-08-11

I didn't want this podcast to end

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