Tom Bilyeu

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Most businesses try to copy-paste tactics that worked for someone else.

But once you’ve built a business beyond $1M, your problems don’t have cookie-cutter solutions.

Typically, you have no clue where to even begin.

Novel Problems Demand Novel Solutions

You need to understand the nature of a problem, not think by analogy.

There is not a single problem where the right set of questions won't lead you to the right answer.

If you can't solve novel problems, all you can do is copy.

Live In Your Finance

If you’re not, you’re committing suicide on an installment plan.

You’re metric will reveal:

• What's working
• What's failing
• Where to focus
• When to pivot

Data should drive every single decision in your business, not intuition.

Goals Make Demands

Set hyper-specific targets.

Don't say: "I want more money."
Say: "$1M in profit by December 31st, 2025 from building my YouTube channel."

Without specific goals, you waste energy moving in unclear directions.

Become Obsessed With Learning

Create a culture of experimentation in your work and life.

The more you experiment, the more you'll fail—and the more you'll learn.

Failure is the cost of entry for success and you can't have one without the other.

Let People Dent The Car

You can’t go from 7 to 8 figures alone.

Trust your team to make decisions, make mistakes, and make it right.

Most issues won’t “total the car,” so let your team figure it out.

If you can’t let go of the little things, you will never have time for big things.

Question Everything You Spend Money On

Never do something just because you've always done it.

Use zero-based budgeting - make everything justify its existence.

Pull money away from failures and pour it into what's profitable.

There Are No Solutions, Only Trade-Offs

There will always be more than one path to go down.

But you must be decisive and execute with everything you have.

Only new data should force a pivot—not doubt, not FOMO, not family pressure.

A perfect solution does not exist.

I’m 48.

Over the last 14 years, I've sold Quest for $1B, built 3 multi-million dollar businesses, and scaled my media company to over 1 billion views.

7 principles every entrepreneur struggling to scale needs to hear:

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Remember: Perfect accuracy is the enemy of good decisions.

The FAST system isn't about getting every decimal right.

It's about making confident moves with "good enough" data in real-time.

Because speed beats perfection in business every single time.

Step 4: Transform

Let this data fuel team discussions.

At least once a week, run a 30-minute meeting:
• 10min: Report numbers
• 10min: Diagnose issues
• 10min: Make 2-3 decisions

Then, revisit those decisions in next week's dashboard.

Step 3: Sync

Give context to your numbers — a 12% margin means nothing without context.

Compare each metric against:
• Your 90-day baseline
• Your targets/budget
• Industry averages

This shows exactly where to investigate and adjust.

Work with each department to identify their 2-3 most predictive metrics.

Example for sales:
• Demos booked
• Deal size
• Weeks to close

Place these next to your lagging indicators.

Step 2: Anticipate

Most founders stare at lagging indicators (revenue, profit).

That's like driving by looking in the rearview mirror.

Instead, track leading indicators:
• Leads in pipeline
• Customer satisfaction
• Social media follower growth

The key to Focus is ruthless simplification.

Your dashboard should show your business health in 30 seconds flat.

If you need more time to understand the numbers, you're tracking the wrong metrics.

Think of it as your business cockpit.

Step 1: Focus

Build a 30-second dashboard. Create 3 tabs in a spreadsheet:
• Inflows (revenue streams)
• Outflows (expenses)
• Summary (key metrics)

Create a column for each of your 5-10 most critical metrics.

Your summary should track: Revenue, Margins, Cash, CAC, LTV, MRR, and Churn.

The FAST system has 4 components:

• Focus: Simple dashboards with 5-10 key metrics
• Anticipate: Track leading indicators
• Sync: Compare against benchmarks
• Transform: Convert data to action

Let me break down each step:

We built Quest Nutrition to $1B without perfect financial data.

Sadly, most founders think they need complete accuracy to make decisions.

Here's the system we used to grow 57,000% in 3 years with “good enough” data:

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You need extreme clarity to build a business.

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Here's the paradox:

Business IS complex. The marketplace IS chaotic.

But believing in complexity doesn't serve you.

Complexity is the actual terrain of business. Simplicity is your map to this terrain.

Choose your path. Then commit fully.

Step 6: SMASH the Button

Don't gently make the decision. SMASH it.

Half-measures create half-results. Once you choose, commit fully.

Unless new data forces you to pivot, you cannot change your mind.

Step 5: Define Trade-offs

For each option, clearly state:

• What you gain
• What you lose
• What problems you'll have to solve

Don't hide from downsides. Every option has them.

Step 4: Choose Your Final Three

Not two (oversimplified)
Not four (overcomplicated)
Exactly three distinct paths forward

These should represent completely different approaches to solving your challenge.
Not variations of the same theme.

Step 3: Force Consolidation

Group similar ideas.

Your goal is to find the most fundamentally different approaches—not variations of the same idea.

Be ruthless about combining overlapping solutions.

Step 2: Brain-dump ALL Options

Don't judge. Don't filter. Don't analyze.

Just get every possible solution out of your head and onto paper.

The goal is quantity, not quality.

Your best solution often hides behind your obvious ones.

Step 1: State Your Challenge

You must write your challenge in one sentence.

If you can't explain it clearly in one sentence, you don't understand it well enough.

Keep refining until you can.