How to Make it on YouTube in 2026 (Alex Hormozi interview)

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Join Karat's Discord for creator masterclasses every week at https://link.trykarat.com/discord-hormozi Meet @AlexHormozi: he's making $10M+ year from content and owns a portfolio of businesses making $250M/ year. In this pod - he shares 21 secrets on how he monetizes and scales his content- and why most creators are stuck in a broken business model. ------------ Follow Karat at https://www.instagram.com/trykarat/ Listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/4MHqM4uA3B8Nhm4fAoK3Je Follow Eric at https://www.instagram.com/erictway/ Follow Alex at @AlexHormozi https://www.instagram.com/hormozi/ ------------ 21 Insights from Hormozi: 00:00 - Intro 01:44 - Your content is your business 04:08 - How to scale your business beyond a “face” personality 05:50 - Wanna make money? Learn this game 06:32 - One mistake killing your channel - FIX IT 07:38 - Monetization HACKS every creator should know 12:48 - Focusing on deals? Congrats, you're a media company 16:09 - If it's worth doing, expect HATERS 16:58 - DON'T eat this... 17:48 - Can you really get cancelled? 20:42 - Alex's bet with Graham Stephan 21:01 - is Alex a billionaire 25:11 - Giving up equity can 10x your business 29:11 - Copy what works, scale FAST 30:00 - Content alone won't build your business - THIS WILL 31:00 - How to win on cost, but RISK it all 31:43 - Beat key man risk with this one strategy 35:45 - Secret to scaling your content 39:23 - Chose the right product to promote or LOSE BIG 40:37 - Use this retention hack from day 1 42:40 - Elements of influence you NEED to master 50:15 - Secret hack to using short form 52:00 - Content won't scale a business UNLESS you know this 53:31 - The branding mistake that's diluting your platform 1:06:03 - Ultimate content boosting cheat code