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I think your business is more famous than you are
The last thing you need to be worried about is the algorithm. Focus on this.

"Bro I'm done. Been posting frameworks for months and I'm getting 12 likes a post. My company does $40M, why does nobody online care?"
I've gotten that exact message from probably 50 founders this year.
Ok well, not EXACT. Numbers are different, phrasing is different but the frustration is always the same.
So I told him what I tell every one of them, and he didn't want to hear it.
His business is more famous than he is. He's been posting like the opposite was true. Until that flips, none of it works.
- The company has revenue.
- The company has clients.
- The company has a reputation.
You personally do not. Ouch. I know.
You're the operator behind a brand that's outpaced you and every post you publish is being read by people who don't know who you are yet, regardless of how impressive your business is.
That explains 90% of why your content underperforms.
When Hormozi posts an obvious take it does 500k views.
When you post something smarter and maybe even more useful…you get 14 likes.
The take didn't change. The trust around it did. People don't form opinions on content in a vacuum. They form them based on who it's coming from, what they already feel about that person, and whether the person has earned the right to take up space in their feed.
Most founders try to close this gap by being more useful with more frameworks, tactics and how-tos.
None of it works.
You can be the most useful person in your niche and still be invisible if nobody knows who you are.
The fix runs against every operator instinct. You have to talk about yourself before you talk about what you know.
Talk about your story, what you've built, the decisions you made, the mistakes you survived and the moments that made you the person teaching the lesson in the first place.
Most founders avoid this because it feels self-indulgent.
Without doing so, every framework you post is just unsolicited advice. With it, even your weaker posts start working because now the audience knows WHY they should care.
A friend of mine closed $300k in 90 days from X alone. Never went viral.
Just made himself as known as his business.
Another founder I work with is the first name dropped any time someone in his industry asks who to work with because he stopped hiding behind his company name and let people see who he was.
The compounding doesn't need 100k followers.
It needs your name to mean something to the right few thousand people in your industry.
That only happens through who you are.
– Wiz
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