How Alex Hormozi Gets Other People To Build His $100M+ Empire
The host and Alex discuss how to think about talent, hiring, and leadership, including frameworks for diagnosing employee performance issues and prioritizing intelligence and small skill gaps in recruiting. They explore the evolution from operator to 'collector of people,' the importance of pattern recognition in building teams, and how to identify true partners versus employees. The conversation broadens into trade-offs between work and life, patience versus speed, the role of networks and alternative education, copywriting and persuasion, and Alex's current reflections on mortality, happiness, and redefining his priorities beyond business.
Backroads: Tom Hale. How a desk worker became a trailblazer in active travel
Guy Raz interviews Tom Hale, founder and CEO of Backroads, about how he turned a spontaneous idea into one of the largest active travel companies in the world. Hale describes leaving an unfulfilling environmental planning job, bootstrapping bike trips through U.S. national parks and later internationally, and building a logistics- and people-intensive business without outside capital. He also explains how Backroads survived major shocks like 9/11, the Great Recession, and COVID-19 while expanding beyond bike tours into hiking and multi-adventure travel.