How To Build A Billion Dollar Business From a Billionaire CEO
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- In this video Ken McElroy dives deep into the strategies and real-life examples behind scaling a business from a modest start to a billion-dollar in revenue. Using stories from companies like Starbucks, Uber, and Airbnb, the Ken highlights the critical steps of starting small, perfecting a model, and scaling effectively while overcoming challenges along the way.
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Ken really nails the importance of starting small and scaling with precision. A key tactic often overlooked is using strategic partnerships to accelerate growth, like how early-stage startups can collaborate with established companies for mutual benefits, leveraging their resources and customer base to scale more rapidly than on their own.
One of the best videos, and channels for that matter, that I have ever seen on TH-cam.
Yah this guy is giving solution to our problems, but most people in this comments section are focusing on the problem, we know that he made a mistake by saying 1 million to 1 billion is 100 × growth rather than saying it's 1000 growth. It was a MISTAKE GUYS. Focus on the information that is provided.
Thankyou so much i saw it from a very newbie lens
But still
The concept of figuring out a working model and making it perfect , ensuring it cashflows.
Then Scaling
Till the time a new challange arises
Than fixing that box of model
Then repeating that box
I caught that concept. Thanks a ton❤️
You should do a whiteboard on this with examples of commercial multifamily that would be exciting
Thank you for these videos Ken! Love your prospective on scaling your business, it is so inspiration! Self made, started small and really went for it!
Please show how you can drain generate 1 million and revenue with commercial multifamily starting with a duplex
1M to 1B is 1000X
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Thanks for this inspiring video. First, earn enough to cover expenses. Then, establish processes and procedures, and create a plan for the business. Hire the right people to execute on the plan, and once the wheels come off, SCALE.
If you want to improve your life and become financially independent listen to this man. Focus on his advice and learn from his experience. He has help me change my mindset and consequently grow financially. Learn from him like if you were trying to learn a new language. Ken is very successful and you can be as well if you learn from him and others like him. Thank you Ken!
Great info! I will say though that i believe 'Stay in your lane' is a recipe for discontented, disengaged employees
Ken, love the video, thanks for sharing.
Thanks Ken! This was very timely and helpful!
I’m happy with 17 units small simple and below the radar
Thank You Ken.
I watched this and now I am a billionaire. Thanks Ken.
The first billion is always the hardest.
Great video and practical advice.
2:21 Harry Mack in the house lol
Nice brotherhood reference with Schultz
1 million to 1 billion is 1,000x growth... not 100x
Simple maths
Well if you compound 1mx100 over 10 or 20 years that should add up to 1b 😉
@@lyleburlingame2276 sounds pretty simple doesnt it?
I literally came here to make the same comment 1 billion is 1000×1,000,000
Apparently my highschool math teacher lied, and math isn't all that important to success! 😂
Excellent advice. Thank you.
This is great. Thx Ken
Im overwhelmed
This inspires me to grow.
Hi Ken. I’ve been watching you videos and appreciate your non BS approach. I own a 40 unit apt complex in Lakewood, CA that’s fully paid off. The rental income is awesome, but I’m looking to expand (outside of CA), but I seem to be procrastinating with high prices before and now high interest rates. What do you suggest 😂
borrow against your income stream. You should be able to get financing at 7% and use that to purchase properties in high grown areas, that will yield a lot more than that.
Hello From Seattle
As a multibillionaire from Tonga, scalability is key to success
Is that Harry Mack at 2:21???
Interesting🎉
Hopefully if there's a Billionaire in terms of cash so that's only and external happiness of a human being. And I hope that to all of this Billionaires has also a billions of kindness in their hearts that in this world nobody will live poverty and most specially nobody is beggars to all our surroundings asking alms just to survive . Hopefully as a billionaires you'd always be happy to do some charity works . So that our Heavenly Father in Heaven could feel happiness. ❤
FWIW… Starbucks notoriously does not franchise. They own the majority of their stores and then “license” the rest (not the same as franchising)… doesn’t change the main points though, thanks for the info.
What do you think will happen in 2027 with multi family market and investors when the gov will drop the depreciation to 0
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You can grow a company to be a $1B if you can convince the bankers to give you $100M !! If the bankers love your idea but they hate you they will make another version of your company and they will give it a $100M like Facebook! If the bankers love you more than they love your idea they will give you the money any way like adam Newman and his failed Wework company , banks love adam Newman so much they recently gave him another $300M to start another company!
How to get banks to love you?
When I arrived at college in Berkeley, CA in the 1990s, there were no apartments. When a senior graduated and moved out, there were sophomores and juniors in line to take their apartment.
"There are 30,000 students and faculty, why is no one building apartments here?" I wondered.
I was too young to know the answer. I found out in economics class. "Price ceilings create shortages."
I didn't make the connection when I heard that. Then later I found out that Berkeley imposed rent control in 1979.
Apartment developers have their choice of where to invest, and can build apartments anywhere, in any state. So no one built apartments there. And sure enough, when I arrived in the 1990s, there was a shortage.
We had to live in another town and commute to campus.
The biggest threat to the public is - the elimination of incentives to build apartment projects. When the government eliminates the incentives to provide housing, the government had better start building "The Projects."
Shortages in California got so severe, "statewide rent control" was imposed about 5 years ago, in 2019.
In 1979, not just Berkeley lost their apartment market.
- San Jose
- Santa Monica
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles
All those places have astonishingly bad homelessness problems, and an acute shortage of apartments.
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Not to nitpick, but it's important to realize that going from $1 million to $1 billion is _not_ "100x growth." Rather, it is __1000x__ growth.
The monopoly guy is missing his monacle
Just FYI, 1 million to 1 Billion is a Thousand X growth
It proves that you don’t need to math to be a billionaire.
Tell me in two 1 billion is 1000 X growth
Ken, are you looking to angel invest? 😂
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Apparently, you can just make up math as you go. Hell... I guess I already am a billionaire! Cool!
At least that's more likely than someone who can make $1B spending time shooting youtube vids 🙄
Brokies b like..."akshuly it's 1000x"
If this guy was busy trying to grow his business I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have time to make all these videos. Somehow I think he's blowing a lot of smoke. Why? Because it's always about your p&l. And I don't hear him talking about that much. You got to have more p than l.
This dude's definition of growing to a billion dollar business is having a billion in debt.
Billion in valuation is one thing and having Billion USD is bank account is another thing!! Valuation of Amazon is trillion and Jeff bezos own 16% or ~ 160 Billion USD BUT and again BUT it is all stock certificates and valuation!! Despite of owning 160 Billion worth of stake in Amazon, Jeff would not be able to put down 20 Billion $ cash down if asked so valuation is "paper based opinion" while bank balance is real!!
Agar kisi ke pass billian dollar idea hai to message Karen