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Roman Khan was $3 million in the hole at 32. By the time he hit his late thirties, he pulled eight figures in cash out of his businesses without selling a single one. The founder of Peak21 and the operator behind Linjer, Raycon, and Nutrition Kitchen walks through the supply chain mechanics that made it possible: bill of materials, payment terms, consignment structures, and how to make your supplier front the capital. He covers dividend recaps, the red/green/blue Slack system he uses to manage 110 people across six cities, and the A Method hiring framework that cut his team turnover by half. This one's part operator manual, part wealth-building case study.

⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Trailer
00:01:01 -$3M In Debt To $13M In Cash
00:02:19 The Four Levers of Supply Chain
00:03:16 What a Bill of Materials Actually Is
00:05:37 Why 99 of 100 Founders Have No Bill of Materials
00:17:35 How to Negotiate Price Breaks
00:27:02 Tariffs and Who Eats the Cost
00:29:45 Payment Terms and the Float That Funds You
00:34:12 Consignment: The Holy Grail of Payment Terms
00:36:12 Turning Your Supplier Into Your Bank
00:43:07 Closing the Books by the 15th Every Month
00:45:32 Pulling 75% of Profits Out Every Month
00:48:18 Why You Work for Zuck, Not Yourself
00:53:19 How a Dividend Recap Works
01:00:33 Where He Puts the Cash
01:08:02 Spotting AppLovin Before Wall Street
01:13:17 Picks and Shovels Over Consumer Brands
01:16:58 Splitting an $85M Ad Budget by Channel
01:21:53 Day Rates, Fixed Fees and Paying Creators
01:24:07 What's Broken in Your Meta Account
01:33:12 The One Metric He Watches in Meta
01:38:04 $70M Spent on YouTube Sponsorships
01:44:04 4X-ing Influencer Outreach With AI
01:53:02 Why Localization Is the Last Big Unlock
01:56:57 Becoming the Supplier He Buys From
02:02:54 How 16,000 Twitter Followers Built His Deal Flow
02:07:02 Why Micromanagement Is Actually a Gift
02:19:05 The Hiring Book That Took Him to $200M
02:26:34 Building the Scorecard for a Head of Finance
02:36:55 Top Grading Every Job They've Had
02:41:14 $100K in New York vs $20K in Shenzhen
02:45:53 The Biggest Hiring Mistake He's Made
02:48:03 What He Cuts First When He Buys a Business
02:52:45 Quickstrike Questions

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