John Wetmore spent 12 years searching 6,000 agents and found only one who matched his capabilities. Hiring someone identical to yourself creates redundancy and makes you unnecessary. Build a team with complementary skills instead.
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Your people are going to do, if you're lucky, half of what you're doing. If you're lucky. I got 3— I'm— again, we're 6,000 agents. I got 3 that somewhat do what I do. And to be honest, I got 1 that really does and the other 2 kind of do. Like really get after it. 3 out of 6,000 in 12 years. So the problem is most people are going like, I want to hire another me. I want to hire another me. I'm like, you're a pain in the ass. You probably don't. Like, we're crazy. If you want to build, you got to be some kind of messed up. And if you hired another you, they wouldn't really need you.