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Everything Has A Business Behind It

Name: Everything Has A Business Behind It
Uploaded: 2025-04-03T00:45:00+00:00
Duration: 20 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief monologue, the speaker shares a mental exercise for entrepreneurs: look around any room and recognize that every object and feature is the…

3 Apr 2025 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker shares a mental exercise for entrepreneurs: look around any room and recognize that every object and feature is the result of an entire business ecosystem. He outlines the chain of contributors—raw material producers, sourcing agents, labor installers, architects, designers—behind even simple walls. By visualizing these hidden supply‑chain and design layers, listeners are encouraged to train their eyes to spot countless untapped business opportunities in everyday surroundings.

One of my really fun exercises is looking at whatever room you're in and knowing that everything that was there, there's a business behind it. Like the walls you have, there's the person who manufactured the raw materials, there's a person who sourced the materials, the labor that went to installing it. There's an architect who designed it. Like there's all these pieces when people are like, man, I just, I don't know what opportunities there are. I'm like, you can literally open your eyes and everything that you see has a business behind it.