Dean GraziosiCofounder @ Mastermind & AI Advantage | Serial Entrepreneur

Give Your Team Skin in the Game

26 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief motivational monologue, the speaker argues that everyone should adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, though it isn’t easy. The core message is that each person should have "skin in the game"—a direct financial stake in the outcomes they help create. He explains that employees can earn a percentage of deals they source or investors they bring in, and that this stake cannot be taken away. By structuring compensation this way, the speaker believes businesses become uplifting mechanisms, allowing team members to act as elevators that lift others, creating powerful, mutually beneficial growth.

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think everybody should be an entrepreneur. Do I think it's super easy? No. What I actually think is that every human should fight for skin in the game they're playing. And so every person that I employ has skin in the game, AKA if we do XYZ, you will make more money. If you bring me a deal, you will get a percentage of the deal. If you bring me an investor, you'll get a percentage of the investor. And I won't ever be able to take away that percentage of the deal, that percentage of the investor. Yeah. You don't have to show up for work to get that. I think building businesses in whatever way allows you to become this uplifting mechanism for a bunch of other humans. You can be the elevator they stand on, and that is really powerful for me.