Mike Andes saved $10,000 to escape his 9-to-5, but the frugality that got him there now blocks growth. Founders who treat operations staff as pure expense and hoard cash can't scale. Hire an operations manager at $40-50/hr or admin at $25-30/hr to free yourself for sales.
I saved $10,000. I put aside my first $5,000. I was able to drop out of school. I was able to quit my 9-to-5. And the thing that served you well in the past is currently holding you back. The thing of saving every penny, looking at admin as an expense, looking at the cost of, of your operations manager as an expense, looking at the profit sharing that you give to your team as an expense is what's holding you back. And if you just took what money you now have and deployed it towards freeing up your calendar, and if you gotta pay $40, $50 an hour for a great operations person, if you gotta pay $25, $30 an hour for a great admin person, that's a steal of a deal so you can focus on sales.
