Iverson

Scaling businesses with performance marketing | Addicted to ROAS

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Einstein discovered something wild about time.

It's not fixed.

It bends depending on how fast you're moving.

This is called Time Dilation — and the principle is simple:

the faster you move through space, the slower time passes for you relative to everyone else.

Astronauts travelling near the speed of light would return to Earth having aged years less than the people who stayed behind. Same planet. Same clocks. Completely different experience of time.

Time isn't equal. It's relative to your speed.

Now bring that into business.

Two founders start on the same day. Same resources. Same 24 hours.

One moves slow. Deliberates every decision. Waits for perfect information. Holds meetings to plan more meetings.

The other moves fast. Makes decisions with 70% of the information. Ships before it's perfect. Iterates in public.

Six months later they're not in the same race anymore.

The slow founder is still refining. The fast founder has already failed twice, learned, pivoted, and found what works.

Speed didn't just save them time. It bought them more of it.

Because fast movers compress their feedback loops. They get more cycles of learning in the same calendar time. They experience more "time" in business terms — more decisions, more data, more reps — while everyone else is still preparing.

That's Time Dilation applied to business.

And now AI has made this effect even more extreme.

The gap between fast and slow isn't a gap anymore. It's a different dimension entirely.

Teams using AI to research, write, analyze, and execute aren't just saving hours. They're multiplying their decision cycles. What used to take a week of back and forth happens in an afternoon.

They're moving so fast that everyone else is standing still by comparison.

Same 24 hours on the clock.

Completely different experience of time.

The slow team is still drafting the proposal when the fast team is already on version three and closing deals.

Einstein proved that speed changes your relationship with time.

The most dangerous founders, operators, and teams have figured out the same thing.

Speed to decision.

Speed to execution.

Speed to learning.

That's not just a productivity tip,

but it's actually physics.

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@tailopez Does X count?

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@nicktheriot_ Because they are doing too much

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@AlexHormozi Decide fast and act fast!

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@garyvee Who did you think will win the main event?

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@AlexHormozi End of the lawyers who don’t adapt

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@nicktheriot_ We live in a bubble here

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@ariesnotebook True

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@LoganTGott I love anything that makes money

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@Jason Standing out

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@GrammarHippy Depends on who answered them

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@SahilBloom What time do you normally go to bed?

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@tailopez Execute

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@imPenny2x At what age did you have your first kid?

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Scaling too early is how you lose money.

Not how you make more.

I had a client recently who was ready to push.

Hired more salespeople, prepared to increase the budget.

On the surface everything looked fine... revenue was going up, so naturally the next move felt obvious. Scale.

But when we actually sat down and looked deeper into the numbers, something didn't feel right.

It wasn't obvious at first because revenue was still climbing

but a big chunk of those sales were coming from referrals.

Warm leads. People who were already half-convinced
before they even came in.

It was masking the real problem.

When we isolated just the ad leads, the picture changed completely. Cost per appointment was fine.

But the cash collected per appointment for one of the sales staff wasn't ideal, he wasn't handling leads properly.

Not converting at the level they should've been.

So think about what would've happened if they scaled. More budget. More leads.

More pressure on a broken system. Just burning money faster.

That's the mistake people make.

They scale based on revenue instead of actually looking at more important metrics that could break your funnel at scale.

Before you scale anything... fix your backend. Your sales process and how much you're pocketing per appointment.

Because if it's working, you win bigger. But if it's broken, you just lose faster.

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@tailopez Acting on one thing for a long long time.

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@nicktheriot_ Starbucks

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@SahilBloom What did you all have for dinner?

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@daviefogarty Go all in again, you’ll feel it

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@tailopez But he might think he’s better than the book?