Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Business Power Moves: Navigating High-Stakes Entrepreneurship with Amrinder Kamboj

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

Right About Now with Ryan Alford Join media personality and marketing expert Ryan Alford as he dives into dynamic conversations with top entrepreneurs, marketers, and influencers. "Right About Now" brings you actionable insights on business, marketing, and personal branding, helping you stay ahead in today's fast-paced digital world. Whether it's exploring how character and charisma can make millions or unveiling the strategies behind viral success, Ryan delivers a fresh perspective with every episode. Perfect for anyone looking to elevate their business game and unlock their full potential.     Resources: Right About Now NewsletterFree Podcast Monetization Course Join The Network Follow Us On Instagram Subscribe To Our Youtube ChannelVibe Science Media SUMMARY In this episode of "Right About Now," host Ryan Alford interviews serial entrepreneur Amrinder Kamboj, CEO of Kamboj Ventures, a ventures and acquisition company with operations in 15 countries. They discuss the realities of entrepreneurship, the difference between scaling and scalability, and the importance of building sustainable business models. Amrinder shares insights on decision-making under pressure, the value of mentorship, leveraging technology like AI, and empowering employees through equity. The conversation emphasizes curiosity, continuous learning, and surrounding oneself with the right people to achieve business success and personal growth. TAKEAWAYS The pressure entrepreneurs face and the importance of decision-making under stress. The distinction between scaling a business and scalability in terms of expanding operations and entering new markets. Challenges and limitations in industries like restaurants and hospitality, highlighting the need for sustainable business models. The significance of mentorship and surrounding oneself with knowledgeable individuals for business success. The role of curiosity and continuous learning in entrepreneurship. The impact of employee engagement and loyalty on business growth and scalability. The importance of adapting business strategies based on market trends and consumer needs. The influence of technology and AI in streamlining business operations and decision-making. The necessity of making tough decisions in business, including partnerships and employee management. The value of networking and building relationships with other entrepreneurs for mutual growth and support.  

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Well, it starts right about now. What's up guys? Welcome to Right About Now. It's always talking about what's right. We're always talking about what's now. We can talk about last week and about next year. We're talking about right fucking now. How to get ahead, how to learn from the best. And look, I got good friends that refer great people to me,

that know shit that you need to know, that I need to know, to get ahead, to understand what it takes to be successful today. day. That's why I've got Amrinder. He is here. He is serial entrepreneur. He's just a badass, I guess. What's up, brother? What's up, Ryan? Thanks for having me, brother. Yeah, man. I think, you know, Ambringer's a strong name, though. It is. I kind of just want to call you that. That's fine. Amboges Ventures, right? Correct. Yeah. That's our acquisition main company. We have roughly about 15 companies, major companies under that. Under those companies, we have other Acquisition companies under that too.

We're into, what, like 15 other countries. So my whole principle is, everybody asked me this, is my whole principle is when I'm doing business, I'm looking at business of whatever I'm doing in the U.S., right? I trial test it. How can I copy base and take it to multiple countries? That's where scalability comes in. So there's different things of scale and scalability, right? So scale is increasing your operations as your sales increase, right?

Scalability is getting into other verticals and horizons and through other countries. and a lot of people, they don't think that far. And this, the way it happened was one of the days, we're doing all the stuff here. We're buying SaaS businesses. We're buying e-commerce brands. We're growing them and everything. One of the days, I'm just like, dude, what about who we got into another country? It's e-commerce is everywhere, right?

The other principle, what I do is, okay, the world pretty much follows what USA does. If you go to India, Philippines, Dubai, London, all these other countries, right? all those people they're they're being influenced by the western community yeah right so if that's it and i can get into those markets the entry barrier barrier entry ratio is a lot cheaper right now and it's going to get much higher because then i started looking at okay philippines what is the e-commerce in the philippines what how much revenue are they doing you know 70 million dollars right okay so if if u.s is doing 300 something billion dollars or whatever it is along the way there's people in there that have money they need to buy

products. Convenience is the biggest thing. That's what I love about e-commerce. Every business that I get into, it's all about convenience to the client, right? Retail market. I hate retail market. Overhead, all this of the stuff you got to do, blah, blah, restaurant business. I like, but there's different levels to the restaurant business as well. Still hairy business. It is. The margins are ridiculously low. So there's a certain percentage of margin. I'm also looking for it, too. And then the growth ability. The reason why I hate hospitality and restaurant businesses, it's a fab. I hate it. I hate fab businesses. I want a business that lasts for five to 10, 15 years. Yeah. So that makes sense?

Restaurants, it's just like, I'm going to open them a mainstream spot. Yeah. How long do you think it's going to last? One customer can literally ruin your repetition. If your main cook leaves, and it seems like you've been through this, huh? Oh, yeah. What happened? I want to hear this. No, I mean, it's just once you have main people leave and especially, once you get a name for, you know,

cooking, you know, restaurant business is tied to the chef if it's a high end. Correct. Especially. I mean, if you're making tacos behind the, and even tacos have gotten high in. So, yeah, but, you know, if it's fast food or something, it's one thing. But your brand can get tied to the chef really easily in the restaurant business. It is.

Like, when it comes to a restaurant business, a lot of these businesses, when you look at it, a lot of people, they want to create. So there's a fab that's going in California. Okay. They're opening restaurants left and right. They don't know how to cook or anything like that. All they know is like, oh, I can make some good bretas. I can make some good Indian food.

I can make some good Mediterranean food. and they want to open something up, they start with the taco truck, food truck, right? And then they want to open up a restaurant. They have these big dreams and everything. But the problem with that is a chef is not going to be able to become a business owner. And a business owner can now be a chef and you can't run a business like that. So then that's what it comes into the conversation you need to have is what am I? Am I the chef?

Am I going to play a chef role? I'm going to play the business role. And how do I do this? Let me give a personal story. One of my uncles, he owns an Indian restaurant. And I told him this. He's drinking at my parents' house. He goes, man, I got this nice Indian chef.

He works at a five-star restaurant in New York. They treat him like shit. I'm going to pay him $16, $18 an hour. I bought a house for all employees, and he's going to have the master bedroom. And I looked at him like, are you fucking idiot? You think that chef who's giving you the revenue. Pretty much he's the one that produces the revenue, quality of food and everything. You think he gives a shit about living in a master bedroom and only make an $18 an hour.

And when you come into the restaurant, as an owner, you get. get a new car every year and he doesn't you're not giving them those opportunities and he's the main bread and butter of the business and i was like uncle why don't you do this said why don't you give him at least 25% 15% equity to put skin to the game yeah you're a fucking idiot you're a kid you don't know what you're talking about right yeah but then i was like think about it if he has skin in the game he's not going anywhere he's not going anywhere he's going to make better food products he's going to be more involved and now you have a scalable business because now what he's going to do you teach him how to create a leadership team of how to have he's going to start training other chefs so now what do you do your job is to have multiple restaurants throughout the world and that's called scalability yeah but people don't think like that no they're very hyper focused on today and today control yeah I know it all a lot of so I coach over a hundred different businesses and you've been in multiple businesses I've done some research on you bro yeah so business is all the same right yeah everybody's something but

But you don't understand my industry. No, data is the same shit. Yeah. Right. EBTA doesn't lie to you. Cashel doesn't lie to you. Your process, KPI, they're all the damn same. Yeah.

Okay. So they come as 100 businesses and the biggest problem when I see when an entrepreneur is about the field, the tipping point is when they think they know it all. Yeah. Right? Yeah. When you're successful, I'm successful. Why? Because we have people who know it more than us.

Yeah. And we ask them for advice. then we make the decision. That's when that switch happens. Yeah. And a lot of people need to start doing that. Is take the back seat. I don't know at all, but these are the guys handling my customers.

Give me the feedback. Okay, how can we improve? How can we improve? Oh, we need this AI technology. We need that. That's how you always grow. How'd you get so smart so young, I'm wondering? That's a good question.

So 32 years old, I was 20 years old doing GNC business, and I wish this information that I have now, I knew it in the GNC business. I would have never filled. I had a sports nutrition brand and sold it. It would have been 10 times further if I had this information. What I started doing was, okay, there's a tipping point in my life in 2018. I started helping my dad at the gas station business.

I have the G&Cs. I'm helping my dad's a gas station business. And then from there, I'm like, dude, okay, I'm coming in for the health background. Now I'm selling swishers, helping people, you know, there's a different clientele. And I knew in me, I'm like, dude, whatever my dad tells me to do as far as like, you know, making sure the accounting is good to go, whatever it is. Like, this is way too freaking easy to me. I can do this in my closing my eyes. I was like, I need to do something else.

There's more fire in me. So then I got into e-combered business. Then what happened was what clicked to me was when his employees kept leaving. He would hire him a couple months later, a year, he leaves. GNC, same thing. So I'm like, okay, something's wrong here. And I'm like, what about if we reverse engineer this business? I've been doing business since I was 20 years old up until 32 now, right?

12 years of a career. I've never looked at one resume because I'm going towards the vibe that I'm getting through the purchase. I want to know Ryan out of a personal level. If I'm going to do partnership with your friends with you and all that jazz, I need you to know on a personal level. That way, I can teach you to do everything. But on a resume, you can bullshit lie to me, all that kind of stuff six months later down the road.

You wasted my time. I know it usually within the first five minutes of talking to someone. Yeah. Yeah. They're bullshitting, whatever the hell it is. And I love having in-person meetings. Oh, yeah. I hate phone calls.

I hate emails. I hate Zoom calls. I like in-person, especially any of my big business conversations, they're always in-person because I can read the person like this. If they're nervous or shaky, they're doing this, doing that. The way, if they're comfortable, if I ask them something, like right now we're talking with the restaurant business and the way you reacted. I already knew you've been through that experience, right?

You're thinking of something. Oh, yeah. Right? So that's why I asked that question. Going back to what I was saying. Okay. So when it comes to employees, we always hire based employees on the skill sets that they can bring to the company.

So then I said, what about if I change that? Where about if I created a business, right? Or at our gas station business where they're working for us, but then I'm also helping them get to their goals too. Yeah. Right? Their financial goals or whatever the hell it is. So I tell my dad, I was like, dad, this employee right here, he's a good employee.

He's loyal to you and everything. If you want to get more stores, want to give him equity of the pie, 10% depending on the performance that he brings in, which is bonus structure. And then from there, you can get more stores and have him be the manager. Now you have a skillable system. And he's like, no, same thing. Same answer is just like my uncle. Started doing the e-commerce business. Started growing it, started getting a lot of people.

And the first thing, what I do is I ask them what? What's your five-year plan? I'm render my five-year plan is to, you know, help the company, go X, Y, Z, and I put my hand up and I pause them. Look, dude, that's my company. That's my baby. You're not even in the company and you're already telling me you're going to help me, girl. This bullshit.

I'm asking you, what's your personal five-year plan? Where you want to be, where you want to go, what do you want to do, all that kind of jazz. Then we create a five-year plan from there. Then we reverse engineer it. Now I'm like, okay, what's your personal, professional financial goals? Where are you trying to go for the next years? From there, now I'm like, okay, now I can help you. Let's tailor it.

This is how much money in your turn. So that's like a coaching thing. from there from our companies this is what we can do if you do xyz yada yada yada yada so you're helping them meet their goals too they stay loyal to you your your turnover rates less and you're just growing does that make sense yeah but i just want to know if your nature or nurture did you do you get nurtured to be this structured or where's that nature are you always that it was a little bit of both so what happened was in 2018 i started researching other people like grand cardone you know patch of david bradley you majority of the guys and I started to see, what are these guys doing? I started studying every single move. Why did the, why did Grant Cardone do this business deal with Brandon and Osse Navarre? What's going on here? Why is this guy doing this move over here? Why is this guy doing the move here? I started me literally a student of the subject. And then from there, I started reading a shit ton of books. And then the biggest thing where a CEO needs to do is always be curious on everything.

I sit here going, my next line was the most successful people I know are the most curious. Always. And you're a curious creature. Yeah, always. You know, I come in here, what's the first thing I do? Riverside, what do you think about that? I'm curious to see what your thoughts are, right? Yep.

Right? Because then if we're... You'll form your own opinion, but you want a lot, you get the inputs. Yeah. You want to know. Yeah, and then you give me the input. Okay, then you give me the input, you know, the idea that you spend explaining 20 minutes and rather than two minutes are, you know, okay, if we're doing live events,

we're going to use, we're live in-person, OBS. If we're doing mobile with the team, we're going to use Riverside. Boom, that's a structure that I have. In two minutes, I already knew that. But then you explained it a little bit more details, right? Yeah. Triosity is what makes innovative companies. Curiosity is what gives you the most information of knowledge.

What did they do here that we're missing on our stuff? Yeah. Follow their trend. Yeah. That's curiosity. No, it is. I can tell you are. You're one of those guys that go down their rabbit hole a little deeper than most.

That's what I am. Yeah. Yeah. You got to. But I don't know what. I always like to get under the hood with people because I think people that listen to our show are always wanting to kind of know, like, this is this DNA or you know can i become that person you know like because we got all into the

spectrum we got the 25 year old that's trying to be you trying to be me and we had the 45 year olds that might be 10 yards 100 yards past us or right there with us and so i get that question a lot in my dms and stuff i think that question is kind of broad okay the reason why okay what happens is from analyzing a lot of people what happens is well we just discussed you and i we get we're like that one one percent yeah then there's another what 30 40 50 percent a lot of people can get into that bracket to get to that one percent bracket that you're just born with yeah okay right so you what i'm trying to say is you and i we look at life business in a very different perspective with Elon Musk how many Elon Musk are the way he thinks how many people are like that

how many that's 0.015 percent yeah you and I we're not even at the level no the way he thinks trying to put people on mars he sells PayPal use all the money to get Tesla do like what the fuck right so he just thinks bigger i don't know you know like i think we all as human put limitations on ourselves like even in that's i don't feel like i do but i do you know because i don't think fucking big enough for Mars you know yeah yeah i you know how do i think that big yeah exactly because you can do anything that you want to do but you have to expand your mind exactly so what I'm trying to say is you got the 1% and got the 0.5% and then we got this tier and then you got the bottom tier. The bottom tier is always looking for motivation. They're never going to do it.

They're always overanalyze everything. Then you got this people right here where they're motivated. They will get to a certain level, but they need somebody else to get to the next level. But they're always shy to get to the next level or they think they've done it all. Yeah. You and I, the reason why we're at the 1% is because we're always learning and curious and we know we have potential. We have more potential to do more. So the philosophy I use is, okay, what I tell my team is, you have 24 hours. I have 24 hours. Elon Musk has 24 hours.

How come Elon Musk is able to run the most successful companies on planet Earth? Every single company is successful. Why? It's because the way he does his time, the way he manages time, effort, and everything is so productive. There's no downtime. Yeah. Right? Everything's strategically done.

And I think that's the difference between what a lot of people have to do. What I'm trying to say is, okay, there's a lot of people out there. They want to do crazy shit. They look at you and I. They're like, you know, private jets, rolls, Royce, and all the kinds of stuff. How did you get there? Fuck, dude, put your phone down. Stop watching Tom Brady do all this crazy shit, making him a billionaire.

Why don't you work on yourself? Yeah. Well, they're living the life to the lens of that other person. Correct. You know, they're taking some solitude or satisfaction in the fandom of that person. And I take pleasure in helping people succeed, but I take no pleasure in watching Ami get on a private jet. I'm happy for you. Yeah.

But I don't take any pleasure from that. Because that's, I'm not living through a lens of your life. Yep. You know, I'm not for my life. Exactly. You know, it's not because I don't want that for you. No one wants more for my friends and my colleagues than me. Yeah.

But I can't do it for you. And I take no satisfaction in you getting there because I want to be there. Yeah. Yeah. I think what it is, I think you just answered it right there. What a lot of those people that I'm talking about is they live in this victim mindset where I think it's school indoctrination or something like that where they live and we, you like the world society owns us everything right the information is right there you have the

most powerful tool yeah we live in the greatest time ever for that yeah 25 years old what were you doing when you're 25 what was ryan like when he was 25 years old i got promoted seven times at the first ad agency that i worked with okay with a 2.0 GPA barely got into the ad agency but then the people that thought i didn't belong there were reporting to me what year was that 2005 2005 okay now imagine in 1980 something. 1980 something. We don't have phones.

Yeah. You know, we have those long-court phones. Yeah. You know, we don't have no technology or anything like that. Okay.

Now you live in a country where there's poverty. Yeah. Okay. Then you sometimes you have food. Sometimes you don't have food. You make the decision in your household to leave and provide for your family.

Your parents and your siblings. Your brother and your sister. You go to another country miles away. you did some work you saved up you got a ticket go miles away and you go to germany you don't know language you don't know anybody there or anything like that what would you feel you'd feel lawful you would bill you know okay yeah then two or three years later you basically do the same thing and you go to usa same thing you start all over and everything and then you build from there yeah what i'm sure that's that story right there is my dad's story the reason why

i'm saying this is because what what did he do a lot of the people that are listening you have the resources and the tools. It's the phones. My dad didn't have none of that shit. What I'm trying to say is when you bed on yourself and you give yourself no option but to succeed and you're living on the edge. Yeah. Brother. There's nowhere to go.

Exactly. And I know this too. You and I, I feel like we have the same synergy, same type of personality, right? You like to live on the edge. So do I. And that's why we live every single day like we're always fucking broke. We don't have it all or anything like that. Although we might have the jets and we're playing prime.

and all that kind of stuff. But the reason why we're doing that is we're just chasing for speed and time. That's the only reason. It's not clout. No. Right? It's just we're just trying to get to multiple places as quickly as possible. I don't want to sit and, you know, wait for four hours or a plane.

Exactly. You know, I'll pull up in five minutes. Yeah. But when you start looking at some of the stories out there, fuck. When I was 25 years old, I was at my agency, you know, watching my dad hustle, grind, all that kind of stuff. You have to look at the sacrifice of what people do. So people see you and I as far as these successful guys, multimillion dollar guys.

right but they don't understand the ups and downs what i'm trying to say is a lot of people what happens is when that happens they quit i'm not going to do the business business is not for me i'm going to go to the job what you and i did was we got this yeah it just cost me 500 000 to learn a lesson yeah yeah people are okay spending 500 000 a million dollars go to college to still learn nothing yeah exactly right their ROI yeah exactly that's their ROI but our ROI is okay this is never going to happen again and that's what boom you start pivoting in a different way a lot of entrepreneurs they don't understand that is there's a part where you're so stressed out on pressure. There's a reason why diamonds are made out of pressure.

If there's a tipping point for every entrepreneur, it depends on what decision you want. You want to go down. You want to go up. That's the thing. Every single time where I'm stuck, I start calling my friends like you, Bradley, PBD, all these guys. I'm like, dude, I'm stuck over here. What do you think?

What do you think? I'm just trying to get as much information as possible. Then from there, I have it laid down. And then you make a decision. Because this might be something new to me, but Ryan's been through it. you know somebody else has been through it somebody mike schmo joe somebody else if you're doing a hundred million in revenue you don't have to call a guy who's doing a hundred million or five hundred million dollars it might be somebody who's 10 million dollar in revenue too but he's

been through that situation yeah so always be learning like i have a five-year-old son bro i'm always learning from him he's taught me so much shit you know i got cousins who are doing jobs i learned from them engineer again goes back to what curiosity learning and i think that's you know you nailed it i mean you have to kind of have to give a shit yeah like the problem is there's a lot of people that just don't give a shit. Yeah. You can call it not giving a shit, settling. Yeah. There's a lot of settling that happens.

It does. We get so comfortable. And I have a hard time. We all have our superpowers and things that we're good at. I'm not the most empathetic person, though, with the settling part. Like, I can put on, like, I understand look, I grew up with nothing. I grew up in a track home in Easley, South Carolina, with

no money. Lots of dirt, but no money. And so I came from nothing. Two parents that loved me and a military dad, They gave me lots of love. So I guess that's something for sure compared to some kids. But so I just don't have this gene in me that can understand what makes some people have curiosity and interest and want to do better. And I have a real blind spot there. I don't know why you get one life, man.

Yeah. One life. Like it doesn't mean you have to be a billionaire. But to not be interested in maximizing your potential is where I just, I don't know. I don't get it either. I think Ryan, you know what it is? A lot of the population, 75% of the population, they're scared to just try. Yeah.

And the reason why it is, if they try and they're friends, they make fun of them, that's the biggest thing. But the thing is, when that happens, you have the wrong damn circle. The biggest problem that I've seen a lot of people not hitting their full potential, they're surrounded by fucking losers. Yeah. Right. They'll put you down. Or they have successful friends, and this happened to me, they have successful friends, right?

But they're not going to lift you up. And then when you let them go and you have better friends like, Ryan, Bradley, all these guys, you're hanging out with these guys, you're talking about all those old, the bigger shit. They're looking at the different perspective of life, and then you're doing all those massive stuff, and then you meet them, you can't have the same conversation because you're at a, you're vibrating at a different level, they're vibrating at a different

level, right? A lot of people, what they need to do is you need to change your circle. Like, there's been times where my fucking family, dude, I stop talking to my mom for one year. Every single morning, I'm going to the office, I'm fired up to go to the office and kill it, kill it, crush it. She'll call me your cousin in Australia, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What the fuck you want me to do with him?

Your uncle and blah, blah, blah, blah, what the hell you want me to do? Mom, I can't solve their problems. Yeah. I got my own fucking problems. Why don't you do this? Why don't you call me, be excited, be happy, call me and say, son, how you doing? Can I help you? I love you and I miss you.

Yeah. Right? Don't ever call me in the morning ever again. She didn't call me for one year in the morning. We'll have a conversation towards the end of the night. But that's what I'm trying to say. You have to do those kind of sacrifice things. A lot of people, I think they're just stuck trying to not to do sacrifices, you know?

And the same thing with business. Sometimes you have people that you think they're good employees. You have to let them go. Oh, yeah. You know, you can't have the emotional stuff coming in a good business. Sometimes you partner up with a friend and it's not a good partnership. Yeah. You got to let them go.

All good friends don't make good business partners. They don't. And there's a fine line. You got to find what to choose. Is it the journey or the destination for you? The journey. Yeah. I don't know what my destination.

My final destination, like if I were to die, I know what I want, right? Yeah. But I like the journey. Every single business I've been to, I get a lot of people that will tell me, let's do this, I get a lot of offers on my table all the damn time, right? But, okay, the numbers are great sense. We're going to make a lot of money, all that kind of stuff. But if it's not challenging me, I'm not growing.

I like the journey part of things. I like doing hard fucking shit. Like my mentor is like Jeff Bezos. My mentor is like Steve Jobs. My mentor is like Elon Musk, those big guys have created crazy as shit. Like Mars, think about it, Mars, right? Let him figure out Mars. Let me take out people over here.

Let me take care of people here on Earth. I'm trying to solve their problems, but the problems have to be big enough. Yeah. Does that make sense? Yeah. It's the challenge is what I like, the journey that we're going through. What about you? Let me ask you that.

I'm always on a journey. I don't know that I have a destination for sure. I think that's why I've been successful. When you set a destination, you get there. And that's it. What do you do next? I don't want to get there. Yeah.

A lot of people ask me, so have you ever thought about retiring and quitting? I can't. No, I want it. I mean, I'll always have something. something going on. Yeah, see me. I mean, I can play golf, but I, for like a day. Yeah. And you know, but I get, I don't know. Like, it's just, I'm sure, no matter how much you take care of yourself and God willing, you know, we have the health at 75. But I just don't think I'll, I might go to bed earlier, but I'll, I think I'll, I'll have my hands in something until I'm not breathing. Yeah.

You know, yeah. It's just not going to be me. To me, I don't see myself being 70, 80 years old and not doing something. Yeah. When you get to the point where you're, For an example, you and I were very successful enough to be like, you know what? We don't need to work is what I'm trying to say. Yeah. Right? But we like the challenge. We like doing that because that's like, to us, that's our manhood in the way, correct?

Yeah. Right? Yeah. It's just my purpose and, you know, it makes me happy. But I mean, but I also coach every game and go to every practice. So I'm not just a workaholic. It's just my hobbies are my business a lot of times. Exactly.

And a lot of times I find ways to. to make my hobbies, my business. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Literally. Yeah, exactly. That's what happens.

Because all you're doing is you're at a football game, your coach, let's just say, right? You're looking at some other things. But the way you and I will look at things is like this, uniforms are costing me this much. I wonder if I can do, no, no, no resources. Boom. Company starts. Yeah. You know, you're just looking for solutions all the damn time.

Oh, exactly. I'm always looking at, yeah. Yeah. There's always a problem looking for my solution. Your solution. That's the thing. So all the entrepreneurs that are out there looking for a next. business, startup, whatever it is. This is literally how I started. And I know for

Feck Ryan, this is how he started. The majority of these guys is how I started. All you got to do is solve your own problems. If there's no solution out there, you have a business. Because if you're dealing with that damn problem, somebody else. Millons of people are dealing with the same problem. For an example, one of my cousins, she calls me from Australia. She goes, I mean, diapers are expensive here in Australia. I was like, okay, so I compare the pricing. I'm like, God, damn, they are expensive. She's like, what about if we start manufacturing diapers? I'm like, okay, fuck it. Let's just do it. Right? So, okay, let's create diapers, which are good quality diapers at an affordable price for moms, in me, right?

And I was like, the only way to do it is, okay, Ryan, you're a marketing guy. You're a successful guy. If you want to start a business to launch a company. What is it? Well, marketing is part of it. 100% it's marketing, right? So how do you get awareness is expensive. It is.

Mark Cuban started his pharmaceutical company. He said, we're not going to market. You guys have to help me organically grow this company. Yeah. So we did the same approach in Australia. So we ordered a fucking container. send it to Australia, high quality product diapers,

and then from there, she started Facebook groups, she started talking to the moms, she started giving out free samples. They started boom, boom, it started flowing flowing flowing. Now that business is,

but in business for almost three, four years, we'll probably do about 24 million just in Australia, just from selling fucking diapers. That's unbelievable.

And all I did was just solve my cousin's problem. Holy shit. Right? Oh my God. Dude, that's me, though.

I mean, my wisdom and my older age has been just, you know, how many things can you start or you know like having a table not because I wouldn't want to but like literally figuring out because you probably have to do that to yourself a little bit you got to temper a little bit not starting a hundred companies you know every week correct I mean not a hundred but you know what I'm saying so I want to start

in today's age I want to start I would acquire yeah it's way easier rather than you going through the trenches doing all this let some other do do it and then from there you get your you don't even a lot of people this is what they do I want to start a business and then it fills or I want to start a business I don't have the capital. One, you don't need to start the business. You acquire business. I don't have money to acquire business. You raise investors.

That's all you got to do. It's not hard. There's a lot of people out there, though, they'll give you millions of dollars to, they'll be silent partners, millions of dollars. As long as you know how to grow a company, you know, X, Y, Z, or they're just looking for somebody to do something. They will give you the capital. It's simple, but not everybody can do it.

Correct. It's funny because it's not complicated. No, it's not. But people try to make things complicated because. excuse makers make complexity their sword correct I like that yes I like that and it's literally why because it becomes the reason they don't all too busy plus it takes this and that no it's one foot for the other how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time but you do it every fucking day consistency and then going about how simple is business what I like to tell people is

whatever you're doing just pretend like you're explaining to a five six year old sales explain that five or six so yeah and if somebody can understand that and they ask more complex question then you get into it exactly like you said just you got to put one foot forward to the next one go go go go go yeah but people they don't want to hear that it's kind of like this podcast you know two years it did nothing but i stayed with every day and you know snowball effect yeah yeah i tell her people all time it's an overnight success six years in the making and yeah holy shit i like that and uh because you know they want they like hearing that overnight Oh, I can do it too then.

Yeah. No, you can't. No, you can't. No, you're honest, you don't enjoy pain the way I do. Yeah. But I will say, I joke with my dad all the time, the greatest attribute that you and mom ever gave me and my sister. I don't give a shit what people think. That's the key, bro.

And don't get me wrong. It doesn't mean that my feelings can't be hurt and that I don't care like, you know, everybody likes to be liked or something like that. But I don't, I have never paused in my career to go, but what will my friends think if it doesn't work ever. Not one second. But that is a rare quality. Because most people can't do that. It is. So let me follow up with a question on that. So I'm your friend. I'm like, Ryan, shut the fuck. Don't do that shit. Yeah. Right. Do you have something in you that's like, I'm going to prove this fucking wrong? Oh, 100%. I think that's what you and I have. And I politely also don't need their opinion. Yeah.

Because it's not because I have it all figured out. Because I do the same thing. I have mentors people that I'll call for a business challenge. So I don't have it all, not because I have all figured out, but I'm not taking that advice from someone that I don't think can go as far as I can. Bingo. That's all, and that might sound egotistical. No, it's not. It's just either if you, if they're already way past me or something, then I'll take their advice or input on it. But when you're at nine to five at the bank all day, I ain't fucking taking your advice. Yeah. I'm sorry. I don't care if you make 200 grand a year. Yeah. That's nothing. You know, so like, it's just a different mentality. Yeah, this mind shift happened to me years ago when I first started this business.

You have to be very careful of who you're getting your information from and who's guiding you. Very careful. They're either going to make you, break you or anything. One of my good friends back in the day, he told me your biggest mentor and guru is always going to be your dad. I disagree on that. Yeah, that's not always true. I love them. I love my dad.

And I, but yeah, same thing. We both love our dads. We're successful, but they're not at the level where we're trying to get at. I scratched that. Then I remember one time, I was a Genesee. And I'm like, okay, I have the sports nutrition brand,

right? And I'm trying to put it online. They gave me some feedback. Oh, we need XYZ. I'm like, what do I do? So he's my best friend.

He's an older guy. And I'm asking him questions. And he's like, it's not going to be possible. They say, I'm on the fucking letter. They say I own letter. Right.

Okay, great. They don't ask him another business question. Another business case. Then when I started this business and then it clicked in my mind, why in the world, I'm asking him a question when he's never built a business before? he works for a business he's never built a business his salaries like you said 150 hundred 200k a year why am i getting advice from him when i can call somebody else or figure

somebody else out who has done it having that circle of people and being the dumbest person on the table yeah who's way higher than you is the biggest key success ingredient so what i'm trying to say is and i tell my guys to whoever worked for me i'm like first thing before you start working for me find a mentor and look up to him and just my you The way they walk, the way they dress, the way they talk. Do everything just like to them. Yeah. And then from there, that's what's going to build your standards, characteristics, where you're trying to go, all that kind of stuff.

Again, every single CEO out there, if you don't have a mentor, you need a fucking answer. No matter what happens. You got to get stuck. No matter even if you become a Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk type of stuff, you don't think Elon Musk has somebody that he can rely on? Impossible. Of course. He does. Yeah. All these guys do. Yeah.

But that's the problem that a lot of people are dealing with. that's why businesses and a lot of families, sorry, not families, but people, they're not getting to that potential. Yeah. Well, if you've got the wrong inputs, you'll never get an outcome. Yep. Yep, exactly. And so it's, that's what a lot of people run into because that voice inside your head needs to be your own, but then conditioned and influenced by the right inputs. Because what happens is when you're an overachiever or high achiever, it does get difficult. You have to find the right people, you can get poisoned by the wrong advice. Easy.

Because we're all influenced. You know, like I'll hear something. And I haven't caught myself. I mean, even recently, I was like, you know,

someone I respected. Wasn't that they weren't on my level, but they're not really in business, business. I respect them and I like them. And I found myself kind of like thinking about something. I'm like, I need to just put that over here in left field and leave it and not come back to

it. You know, because it was poisoning like my perspective. Yeah. It will. It can very easily. Yeah. So what I will say is, listen to everybody.

Yeah. Respect them. High, medium, and low, right? Listen to everybody, right? You take the best and fuck the rest. Yeah. So if me and Ryan, we're having a conversation with all right now, I'm listening to everything you're saying.

I'm just trying to learn three or four things from you. Yeah. That's it. You can always take something from anyone. Yeah. Especially when it's quality. And it may not all be applicable, but you can pick up tips that made I be the same industry.

Yeah. Because there's always. is a data point or a way of looking at whether there's numbers or website or marketing or distribution like there's a nugget there you know what's the beauty of life is you get to decide everything yourself yeah you get to that's all free will exactly so it's not the society deciding your friends deciding your family deciding whatever it is now when it comes to parenthood too growing up indian parents what do they do doctor lawyer they're making decisions when you're born up until fucking

you're dead or whatever until they die as parents I mean I don't know like how you know as parents what we need to start doing is rather that especially in any community rather than us making decisions for our kids we need to teach

them how to make decisions a lot of people don't know how to make calculated decisions or look at things in a different way right there's a reason why to get to one destination to get from the hotel to come to your podcast, I'm pretty sure there's five different ways to get there. Yeah, right?

At least. One takes longer, one takes shorter. Yeah. One's got better views. One has, might be a way you're running into someone I want you to run into. Yeah. I mean, you know, there's a lot of different ways. There's a lot of different ways.

Choose your own adventure. There you go. Now, going back to the mentor thing, what I always love to say is, okay, imagine yourself going from here to Charlie Atlanta. Okay. Can you do that without knowing the destination by yourself? So you're here and you want. want to go to, let's just say, Atlanta, Georgia.

Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah. Do you know exactly how to get there? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Probably a blindfold.

You know now because you've been there multiple times. Yeah. Hundreds of times. First time. Absolutely not. Absolutely not, right? None. But now a mentor does this, he's a Google Maps.

He tells exactly what's going to happen. Exactly. That's what's the thing of the life. And now we got chat GPT. There you go. AI and other things. Dude. Okay.

Yeah. If we're getting into AI and chat GPT conversation. Okay. I don't know another world. That's a, I have no idea why people are even struggling in life anymore, especially one of business owners. Every single thing.

Every information. Knowledge is cheap now. Our SOPs, our presentations, everything are created like this. Yeah. But still, there's 90% of the populations and it's still not using the freaking AI.

It's crazy to me. Yeah. I use it for everything and we've got agents doing things. I mean, like, if you're not, you're going to get left behind. Yeah.

It's not about, okay, well, you're not learning anymore. No, it's just, once you have a calculator, I don't need to do the math in my head. It's like, you know, it's good that I learned, you know, so I know how it works. I understand how AI works. I know some of its limitations.

So I know that. Yeah. But does it mean I'm not going to use it? Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. I'm going to use it. Yeah.

And if you don't use it, I'm going to get you to pay me to build a team to use it with you. There you. Yeah. So there goes another business. I mean, especially nowadays with marketing and everything since you're a marketing expert, man. This guy, when I did the, you know, I did the business. the researcher on you. I was like, God, you know, I might have to call him for some of the marketing stuff. We need to get done. But AI and marketing has just been crazy. It's a great

research tool too. I mean, it's like cuts off time for me because like if I'm brainstorming concept, it can, it can do research faster than I can and give, like if I'm trying to finish an idea or something or writing and it's incredible. So we use AI a lot of when we do acquire businesses. Yeah. And look at the financial reports and everything, right? So the way it works is you come in with the business, let's just say we're about acquire it. They're 25 million, at least minimum 25 million in business. Then from there, we look at the financial reports. It took us

weeks to look at all that. Obviously, we have to do our due diligence, right? Now we just, we have an in-house software that we've created over the years. We plug it in. It takes about two or three days for it to finalize a full report. It'll tell us the bottlenecks, our growth ratio, five-year plan. It'll tell us if the

acquisition is good. Now, the other thing is, too, everyone asks me this. What's the best way to get the best evaluation on your company? If you don't have a technology platform, it's impossible to get the best valuation. So when we're acquiring companies, the best thing that we're looking at is, if I was to replace the CEO, how fast can I replace a CEO? If I have a CMO, chief marketing officer, how fast can I replace a chief of marketing officer? Until I don't have that stuff, I'm not buying that stuff. Worst thing I want is I bring in my team, a business strategist, my hour CMOs and everything, and we have to re-engineer the whole fucking thing.

Yeah. that's not an acquisition yeah you know yeah what do you do i mean it's interesting question i mean when you're buying a company do you i mean you how long you won't see you staying around normally as long as they will it depends there's sometimes you want to get rid of them but no no i'm saying i'm saying like there's sometimes where so when we're looking we're not we don't want to get rid of CEOs that's not our game we want so basically let's just say if if i came in and our team wants to buy your company or like not even buy or there's there's two things we do we either buy the whole thing right because we know the CEO kind of like stuck up his ass okay and we can grow and he just wants to exit play

then the other option we have is we have a CEO phenomenal every business I buy I always look at the CEO how does he how does he deal with his leadership team how does he deal with stress all this kind of stuff there are certain questions I'll ask and then from there I'll be okay I don't want to buy your business you're a phenomenal CEO you're going to add more value to our other companies as well, too. I'd love to put you in conversations with our other board members and put it, put in a room and have all these other conversations. So rather than me doing that, what about if I came into your business and I bought 25 to 30 percent and we increased your revenue from Expoiseo, increase your EBITDA, I'll bring my investors, business strategies, yada, yada, yada,

what's your thing? Majority of our acquisitions are like that. Yeah. It's more of like an equity play rather than buying the whole thing and it's just an incubator. And then what happens is the CEO when we get into a new industry, that's the CEO, we create another industry holding company and we start buying other smaller mom and pop companies. And they're the one running that portfolio with us. And now they're like a long-term relationship going on. That's what we're really looking for. Yep.

Makes sense. How people learn more about everything you're doing? Shit, man. There's a place to find you. Best place to find me is Instagram. It's Amrinder, A-M-R-I-N-D-E-R-X, the letter X, pro. Follow me on there. Hit me a DM.

Either I'll respond, my team response, and then come through our conference. We have a sick conference lined up, August, 7th, 8th, and 9th. It's called the Domination Conference, the Falun Blue. Now, this one's a little bit different. It's not like where any Joe Schmo can come.

You have to have a minimum of $3 million in revenue. Okay? You have to have employees or three to four employees at least. And there's certain industries that are allowed and not allowed. Like crypto industry, I don't want. There's a difference between crypto industry where there's traders, It's just a single guy trading and he's making money that way. I don't even care even if you have a portfolio of $20, 30 million, right?

But there's nothing that can learn from you. Because you're not running a team. You don't have SOPs. You don't have KPI's. I want to, the conversation we're trying to have in the room is legit conversations. Yep. Is how are you running your business? How are you doing this?

What are you doing for a marketing operation? What are you doing this? Those are a type of the conversation we have, right? And then we have a shit ton of case studies. And then on top of that, we have two sharks coming in. And then there's a segment we're going to have. It's called In the Tank with the Sharks. You have one hour with me and two other tanks talking about if you were in the Shark Tank

and you were present something, how would you ask questions? So if you were a shark, I'm like, here, Ryan, okay, I have a company over here doing 10 million in revenue, okay? What would be the best valuation? What would be this? And then they ask you questions, yada, yada, yada, what industry, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, great. And then you write that down.

You don't have to go to Shark Tank, but it gives you a pitch deck if you were to get investors. how to pitch it and all that kind of jazz. That makes sense. That's cool. Yeah. Something's a little different. Yeah, it's a lot of value. Yeah.

Something different. Yeah. And then, yeah. And then we have a session with the CEO's much higher ticket thing where we're doing from 8 to 9 p.m. in the morning. It's just a strictly CEO session, Q&A panel. And we're asking certain Pacific questions to everyone. It's just an open conversation with everyone.

And then at dinner time with the CEOs, we have private conversations there as well, too. It's going to be different. A lot of value ad. Again, I'm not trying to make money on these events. I'm just trying to get more information. Make more partnerships and make more friends. That's it. Yeah.

That's a way to do it. Yeah. That's when the magic normally happens. Yeah. Because if you have, it's all about the money, it becomes all about the money. That's it. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm probably not going to make any money on this. I don't, we're spending a lot of millions of dollars, but probably not going to make any money on it. Yeah. But that's fine. I just need two or three partners. Where are you doing it? At the fountain blue and it fell a lot of deal. Oh, nice.

I'm sorry. Miami, Florida. Yeah. Love that hotel. Yeah, yeah, it's a good spot. Yeah, man. Appreciate you coming on, brother. Thanks, Ryan.

Well, thanks for having me. I know we'll, uh, I think we got a lot we could build on. I think so, too. Yeah. We were having some conversations off camera, too, and I saw some synergy going on. I love the energy that you and I have to. And I'm all about energy and vibes. And I'm pretty sure that we're, I'm pretty sure these guys that are watching this.

They'll see, uh, me and Ryan doing something together very soon. I see it. Great. Hey, guys, you're to find us. Ryan is right.com. We'll find all the highlight clips. Links to all. I'm running stuff.

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