The Only 3 Skills You Need to Build a $1M Company

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24 months ago I had one of the craziest periods of business.
Several things happened and I just freaked out.
Out of frustration, I decided to go on Slack and I wrote out a chat post.
Probably should have slept on it right?
Nope.
In that moment, I essentially told the whole company:
“This is my vision, this is what we're doing, we're making it about the customers. And if you're not on board, I will pay you $15,000 To quit immediately.”
I hit post.
But here's the problem…
Some of the people we wanted on the team took my offer!
Why?
Because they were just fed up with the drama.
You see, I woke up one day, and I realized that I didn't enjoy going to work and I had a culture problem.
I didn't even want to go to meetings.
And I started figuring out there were some people on the team that shouldn't have been there.
Here’s the deal
C players will cost you your A players.
This lasted for about six months.
And it put me into a tailspin.
I was sad and I'm not a sad person.
I was having anxiety problems.
I was a little depressed.
And I'm on vacation in Costa Rica with the family and I was on my phone pacing on the patio pacing up and down the pool area.
So after losing more than 30% of my team I finally called my business partner, Matt.
He and I own a venture capital firm called High Speed Ventures.
I asked him if he’d come over to SaaS Academy for the next six months and maybe help me fix this.
His response: “I was wondering how long you were going to wait before you asked me that.”
What I learned over the next four months is what I want to share with you today because it allowed us to build the company to almost $20+ million in the next 12 months.
And we built one of the highest culture NPS scores we've ever achieved.
These are the 3 things that changed everything for me.
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