Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

Build a Business That Runs Without You

20 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Mike Andes advising founders to build businesses that run without them by creating repeatable systems and SOPs. The speaker argues it's easier to hire and train competent, lower-skill hires into 'A players' using documented processes than to hunt for rare 'unicorn' hires. Without documented processes for functions like sales and pricing, founders risk hiring another entrepreneur who may become a competitor.

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And in order to build a business that runs without you, you need to have systems that run without you. Like, find great people. I agree. It's easier to find a minus talent and train them up to be a players with systems than it is constantly looking for unicorns that are one in a bajillion that can just create the business for you. Like. Like, well, I have all these leads coming in. I have no idea how to do pricing, no how to do sales. But like, we're growing. If you're going to go try to find someone to replace you doing that without systems, guess what? You're going to be trying to find an entrepreneur like you. So it's very likely you will probably hire your competitor. But that's the type only type of person that can run your sales system. Because you don't have any standard operating procedures. You.