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The richest people I know do this

2026-02-02 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:13 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Business and entrepreneurship · mode: Personal story

In a Short, Ali recalls an event of founders each making at least $10 million a year: the e-commerce founders there launched a new product every week and let the market show what works, while people he knows spend months researching; his conclusion is that when building a business, speed is the goal.

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00:00:00 — What the richest founders at an event do: launch fast

  • ★★ Ali was recently at an event where everyone made at least $10 million a year in revenue from their businesses; he felt like the brokest person there and took a lot of notes. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Ali's key takeaway from the event of founders making $10 million a year or more was how much faster they move than he and other people trying to start businesses do. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Many of the businesses at the event Ali attended were e-commerce businesses, building brands and selling via Shopify or Amazon FBA. — 00:00:00 · Amazon
  • ★★ People Ali knows who tried to start e-commerce businesses, and Ali himself, spent months researching the right niche and product; some eight months later, if they had not overthought the process or quit, they might release one thing and hope for the best. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ A number of the e-commerce founders at the event Ali attended were doing $10 million to $50 million a year in sales. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ The e-commerce founders at the event launched a new product every week, reasoning that they did not know what would work and the market would tell them, so they put things out rather than research for ages. — 00:00:29

  • ★★★ Seeing a bias to action in many of the event's founders, who worked at a far faster cadence than most failing founders, Ali concludes that when in doubt, speed is the goal in building a business. — 00:00:58

    “when in doubt if you're trying to build a business it really seems that speed is the goal”

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Central: bias to action

Also: Amazon · Shopify

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