The Game with Alex Hormozi

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I Offered $10,000 to Anyone Who Could Change My Mind | Ep 1013 Nov 05, 2026

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Alex takes on a panel of successful business owners in a rapid-fire debate over some of the beliefs he's shared publicly. Each entrepreneur gets a few minutes to change Alex's mind for $10,000. He defends his position, concedes where the arguments land, and explains the thinking behind his beliefs. The prize goes to the challengers who made the strongest cases.

In this episode

00:00 You don't need a weekend–or do you?

04:18 Why one A player costs less than three B players

05:23 Selling to the rich versus selling to everyone else

08:37 Options only have value when you use them

11:07 The game of business versus the craft

14:42 Why priorities matter more than information

16:41 Mediocre employees reflect a mediocre founder

19:00 Lazy, weak, and successful people

20:34 Can "work-life balance" build something memorable?

24:16 Going all in versus betting the farm

26:21 Why "help maxing" and profit maxing work better separately

28:59 The origin of “need” the weekend and sharpening the ax

33:38 Why profit is overrated, and the case for long-term returns

36:41 Balancing a scaling business with raising kids

41:50 The $10,000 winners

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Building a $2,300,000/yr Business for a Stranger in 57 Mins | Ep 1012 Nov 03, 2026

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Ahnny runs seven eyelash salons, doing $2.3M a year. But unpaid work, uneven staff training, and partners who no longer share her goals are stalling growth. In this episode, Alex breaks down her partnership and pricing options, a staff career path to keep her best employees, and a membership built on default closes.

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How to Learn Anything Fast | Ep 1011 Oct 29, 2026

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Falling behind peers often has less to do with intelligence than with how fast you iterate. In this episode, Alex breaks learning into a seven-step process and explains why the fastest rate of improvement wins over time. He also makes the case for removing luck from your vocabulary and focusing only on what you can observe, measure, and repeat.

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Give Me 15 Minutes, and I'll Fix Your Company Culture | Ep 1010 Oct 27, 2026

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Most business owners aren't held back by their obvious bad hires. The mediocre middle is what clogs businesses. In this episode, Alex defines organizational culture and explains why the weakest person a team tolerates sets the bar for what is acceptable. He also explains how local versus global empathy changes hard decisions about firing employees.

In this episode

00:00 What culture is: the rules of reward and punishment

02:25 The 80/20 of culture: who you fire is the loudest signal

07:09 Judge team members by output instead of excuses

11:05 The IQ analogy: why removing beats adding

13:45 Closing the gap between knowing and doing

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8 Entrepreneurs Compete for $100,000 Oct 22, 2026

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Eight entrepreneurs, $100,000, and a golden ticket on the line. Ninety days after Alex gave each founder a scaling roadmap, they return to prove they ran the plan. The founders share their revenue growth stats, adherence to the plan, and greatest surprises in the implementation process. One leaves with the price and a year of guidance from the Acquisition.com team.

In this episode

00:00 Golden ticket stakes and round one rules

01:34 Contestants’ 90-day results and eliminations

17:13 Joey’s scaling roadmap deep dive

20:32 Kaleb’s implementation review

23:44 Tina’s pricing overhaul and mindset shift

26:17 Hasee’s hiring, sales, and content creation wins

29:36 Adherence round eliminations

34:11 Tina and Joey’s final sales pitches

42:32 Judges deliberate and reveal the winner

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Learn 97% of How to Get Rich in 11 Mins | Ep 1009 Oct 20, 2026

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Most bad business bets start as emotional discomfort disguised as strategy. In this episode, Alex shares the three questions he uses to pressure-test every decision. He explains why distraction is often intellectual laziness, how asking the right questions unlocks stalled projects, and why doing nothing is so often the right call.

In this episode

00:00 The 3 questions Alex uses to make better bets

00:23 Question #1: What problem are you trying to solve?

02:45 Question #2: What would it take?

05:16 Question #3: What do you want to have happen?

10:24 Why “do nothing” is often the correct answer

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Can I Save This Failing Park in 90 Days? | Ep 1008 Oct 15, 2026

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Paul sank $22M into an indoor adventure park and had 14 days before running out of cash. In this episode of Scale or Fail, Alex identifies the cash flow constraint killing the business and helps him build the one offer that could buy it enough time to survive. 90 days later, summer camp revenue is up 325%, and admissions have doubled.

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How to Rank Life Priorities When Everything Feels Important | Ep 1007 Oct 13, 2026

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Most people let life design their priorities by default and wonder why they feel empty in the end. In this birthday episode, Alex gets unfiltered on the 10 life categories most people claim to care about and how to rank them. He explains why he believes optionality is overrated, and why every real win in life sits on the other side of commitment.

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Every Business Owner Should Watch This | Ep 1006 Oct 08, 2026

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Husee's father built a dental practice over 30 years but nearly ran it into the ground by being the only person who could run it. In this episode of Scale or Fail, Alex diagnoses the single constraint killing the business: one doctor, three locations, and a delivery model that stops the moment the founder takes a break. Ninety days later, the practice goes from a $160K best month to closing in on $500K.

In this episode

00:00 How it started: numbers and goals at Smile Magic

03:12 The fix: mapping the implant visits

08:49 Increasing Google Ads spend and prices

12:55 Refining the sales process

22:00 Organic content engine

24:24 Position on the $100M scaling roadmap

25:59 90-day check-in and results

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How to Make Money With Social Media (My Exact Playbook) | Ep 1005 Oct 06, 2026

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Algorithms reward what most people like instead of what your best buyers need. In this episode, Alex shares behind-the-scenes data on how his most-viewed videos produced zero sales while lower-viewed, advanced business videos generated the most revenue. He also shares a high-ROI content framework that maximizes revenue rather than reach.

In this episode

00:00 Choosing between media and business goals

02:02 Analyzing results from views vs revenue tests

06:20 How the algorithm misleads content strategy

07:21 The vertical value content framework

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