Omar Zenhom explains how founders scale by shifting from doing everything themselves to conducting a team. The three moves: hire the right people for each role, stay obsessed with what customers actually need, and reinvest profits into systems that let you step back.
You need to see yourself as the conductor of an orchestra. Your job is not to play all the instruments, the violin and the trombone and the drums and the triangle. No, if you want to build, grow, and scale a business beyond yourself so that you don't need to work 9 to 5 anymore, then you need to follow these tips. Number 1, you need to start thinking like an entrepreneur and not a self-employed person. Being self-employed means that you're doing all the work. Your job is to find the right people to play the right instruments to make beautiful music. Number 2, Your number one job is to serve the customer. This means sometimes your product's going to change, it's going to pivot, and it's going to change based on the needs of the customer. So don't be so obsessed and so dedicated to your product or your idea. You need to be flexible and be able to move with the market. Number 3, you need to invest in your business or see yourself as an investor in your business. This means that when you are making a profit and you have money after you paid yourself, you got to think about how am I going to reinvest in this business so it continues to grow? What hires do I need to make to make more revenue, to improve the product, and so that you're removing things off your plate and eventually you're not needed anymore for the business to run. That's what you need to do so that you can grow and scale a business. If you want to learn more how to do this, then comment the word founder and I'll send you the full episode.
