After selling his company, the speaker ditched chasing revenue numbers and focused on actual profit instead. He realized $100K monthly revenue might mean only $5K take-home, while $10K in profit is real money. Now his bank account is fuller than ever, even though his revenue is lower.
But you know what? I got super tired, man. You know, the reason why now I focus on profit was because I got fucking tired of looking at the big Stripe screenshots and it didn't correlate to my bank. And you know what's sad is you see two screenshots. One is $100K per month and the other one is $10K per month profit. The other one's revenue, right? Maybe the guy making $100K per month revenue is taking home like $5K. So it's half as impressive as the other dude. but the other one, people like it way more. And I fell for that porn entrepreneurship number for 3 years and I'm done. I'm done. I'm just going to focus on profit now. And, you know, I have more money now in my bank account than I've ever had, ever, ever since I sold the company. And I am feeling amazing. Even though the revenue number isn't that high, profit is healthy and I'm cool with it.
