About this episode

This episode discusses how virtual assistants can help founders escape the founder's trap and drive significant ROI.

Learn how to leverage virtual assistants to unlock real revenue & escape the founder's trap. Virtual assistants are one of the most underestimated growth levers available to founders today, and in this episode, I sit down with Brad Stevens to break down exactly how to use them strategically alongside AI to multiply your output, free up your highest-value time, and generate a return on investment that most founders never thought possible from an assistant. Brad Stevens is the Founder and CEO of Outsource Access, an offshore virtual services firm he scaled to 500 employees in just 4.5 years, ranked #326 on the Inc 5000, and the only outsourcing company to win both the 2023 and 2024 Real Leaders Impact Award. A Wharton graduate, Harvard Business School executive education alumnus, and TEDx speaker with over 230,000 views, Brad has built multiple businesses with distribution across 18 countries and advises founders globally on scaling, automation, and building high-performance virtual teams. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Virtual assistants are not an expense but a strategic investment with a minimum 5-to-1 ROI target within the first 60 days. The fastest path to scale combines AI plus a human…

Keywords

• scaling
• high-performance teams
• outsourcing
• AI

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