If you have a team of A players and you know how to build it from scratch – nothing can stop you. If you can build a 20 people team – you can build an army.
Peter Thiel and Michael Bloomberg (both are multi billionaires) are the examples of what you can reach by focusing on building a team instead of blogging, writing, coaching, trying to solve a problems by yourself or hiring someone ones in a while. If you are a company of one – you are alone… and you cannot possibly compete with someone who can build an army.
The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire game is not a 10x. It’s 1000x.
On average “a company of one” is a millionaire game… and “I build a team” is a billionaire game. I’m not talking about an average achievements. I’m talking about a ceilings.
Serena Taccari have a quite funny and very deep joke: “Wishing you joy jumps and high ceilings!”
So your ceiling is 1000 lower if you are playing “a company of one” game…
If you don’t make any efforts to build a team, to learn how to build a team – it will not happen by itself. No efforts, no results, no rewards.
And this is not just about money. Money is just a measure of how much value you are adding to humanity. This not a perfect yardstick. If you are running a tobacco company – this is not the case of course. But on average – money is quite a great indicator – how much value you are adding to the whole world. We cannot use the yardstick to measure the value which added by a scientists, artists or philosophers… but in the world of business money as a yardstick works quite well.
Think on it again:
The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire game is not a 10x. It’s 1000x…
The difference between “a company of one” and “I want to build an A players team” is 1000x…
And the question is “Do You Have a 1000x Game?”