Sharpen The Spear
Sharpen the Spear helps entrepreneurs escape the "owner prison" and scale their business. Hosted by a former Marine turned business coach, each episode offers quick strategies to gain freedom and success.
Scaling Smarter: Jake Holmes on AI, Efficiency, and Business Growth
Richard Walsh and Jake Holmes explore AI's transformative role in business. Jake shares his AI journey and addresses common fears. They discuss automating non-value tasks, maintaining authenticity in sales, and tech's strategic role in scaling. Jake emphasizes managing software costs and developing AI for customer retention. The episode covers growth vs. scaling, leveraging tech, and empowering teams with AI. They discuss streamlining operations, SOPs, profit per person, and innovation. Jake outlines his auditing process for efficiency, stressing external audits to uncover waste and hidden profits. The conversation concludes with insights on preparing businesses for sale and AI project failure rates.
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