Ryan DeissCo-Founder & CEO, The Scalable Company

How to Run a $10M+ Business in 1 Hour per Week

13 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A short instructional YouTube monologue by Ryan Deiss introducing "How to Run a $10M+ Business in 1 Hour per Week." Deiss positions himself as a multi-company operator (17 companies in a $200M portfolio) and promises a Part 1 walkthrough for building a CEO dashboard in Google Sheets. He lists four high-level guiding principles—keep it simple; track weekly; make it manual; use stoplights—and frames the dashboard as a tool to stop firefighting, move conversations from feelings to facts, and enable founders/CEOs to scale without constant heroics. More detailed, actionable breakdowns are promised in Part 2.

Chapters

I run 17 companies inside a $200 million portfolio and I see two to $5 million companies go to $10 to $20 million companies after implementing just one thing they can build in just half a day. This is part one of how to build a CEO Dashboard so powerful that you can manage your entire business from one Google sheet. There are four guiding principles that you need to know in order to build the best possible dashboard. Keep it simple, track it weekly, make it manual, and keep stoplights. If you're firefighting in Slack an email, arguing with your teammates about feelings instead of facts, or running a business that relies on your heroics to scale, I'm putting this out on the Internet just for you. This is where you start to actually think like a real CEO. I'll break down the four principles in part two. Stay tuned.