✈️ Growth Secrets: $0 to $10M ARR in 6 Months

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💸 Growth Secrets: $0 to $10M ARR in 6 Months

When Sahil Bloom announced he was launching a new company with Hunter Hammonds, I knew it’d be successful.

What I DIDN’T know… was how fast it would get there.

Assembly Ventures, the brainchild of Sahil Bloom and Hunter Hammonds, grew from $0 to $10 million annual recurring revenue in just 6 months.

Today, I sit down with Hunter Hammonds (@_hunterhammonds), the CEO and Co-Founder of Assembly Ventures. Hunter shares his business flywheel—Strategy, Execution, and Amplification, among many other growth tactics.

Hunter is a pure genius operator and I learned a ton from him.

Today, you’ll learn:

• 💻 The 3 Pillars for Operational Teams

• 💰 How to Scale Businesses Successfully

• 📈 The 3 Flywheel Components of a Business

• 📱 How to Partner Up with Large Content Creators

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Here are a few juicy excerpts from today’s episode to get you flowing:

Effective Strategy Approach:: "So I think there's a lot of trust in what we're doing right now because of the approach we've taken and the people that we chose to partner with first vs. doing something that's more of the celebrity-driven kind of vast-market creator approach." — Hunter Hammonds (15:58)

Building a Strong Brand: "So instead of us launching a new brand and that detracting from the quality, every time we launch a new brand, we're pulling that playbook into that new space, that new service, using the learnings from this new service, or how we perform this particularly new niche creative thing and using that to inform the rest of the operations." — Hunter Hammonds 17:47)

This episode will get your creative business juices flowing!

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💬 Final Word

I was interviewed by my friend Andres Sanchez on his podcast where I talked a lot about my own background and how I got started building my Personal HoldCo.

Check it out if you’re curious!

In other news, I’m off to Vancouver this weekend for a wedding. This will be my final trip until my wife and I welcome our first baby into our family!

So, I’ll be offline a bit enjoying the last bit of travel for a while! :)

See you all next week!

Yong-Soo Chung — Serial Entrepreneur, Podcaster