Jameson CampAdvising on AI and GTM | 2x Exits

This changed my life #businessideas #entrepreneur

11 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this concise entrepreneurial video, the speaker shares a simple calculation that transformed his approach to managing a business. He proposes converting annual income (e.g., $100,000) into an hourly rate by dividing by 2,000 work hours, then further dividing by four to establish a $12.50‑per‑hour outsourcing threshold. Any task that can be performed for less than this amount should be delegated. He advises founders to audit their daily activities, pinpoint tasks they avoid or that drain energy (e.g., answering customer emails), and outsource those tasks. The speaker recommends hiring platforms such as Upwork, onlinejobs.ph, and niche Facebook groups targeting workers in Latin America or the Philippines. The overarching message is to stop fixating on growth tactics and instead hire help for minutiae, allowing founders to focus on scaling the business.

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I spent most of my life doing things that just fully drained me until I did this one calculation. Everyone has certain things that they know they could do and actually will do, but they put off because they just feel like stuck energetically when they do them. So what I'm going to tell you is like how to hire to solve for that. Let's take your yearly income, and for the sake of this, let's say it's like $100,000 a year. You divide it by 2,000, the amount of hours you put in in a year. Okay, so in this scenario, let's say you make $100,000, you divide it by 2,000, that means you basically make $50,000 $18 an hour. We then take that number and divide it by 4. We get down to $12.50 an hour. So now what we're going to do is any task that can be done for less than $12.50 an hour, you are going to outsource. And you're going to start by just auditing your day. What are the things that you're stuck on, right? What are the things that you just are putting off doing? I'll give you an example. You've got 4 customer emails that have questions and you don't respond to them because you hate dealing with customers, but somebody else could respond to them. Would you say that it's worth $6 to have those questions responded to? But then you're going to want to know where to hire these people. Everyone's going to say go to Upwork, but there are other places. Check out onlinejobs.ph, and also there's lots of Facebook groups for people in Latin America or people in the Philippines, and you can hire out of them as well. But stop trying to get so stuck on like how to grow your business and recognize you already grew it from 0 to 1. You just need to hire someone to take on the minutiae bullshit so you can keep growing it, and we'll move the ball forward.