Alex Hormozi ruined most business podcasts for me.
Once you get used to someone opening a whiteboard and handing you the exact math behind a $100M offer, you can't go back to shows where two guys riff about "mindset" for an hour.
The problem: The Game publishes an episode roughly every 3 days, and after 1,100+ of them, even Alex repeats himself. Volume is his strategy, he says so himself. At some point you want the same density from a different brain.
So here are the 8 shows I actually reach for when I've caught up on The Game. One of them is mine, and I'll say so upfront.
How I ranked these
Three filters, same ones Hormozi would use:
→ Real numbers over motivation. If a guest won't share revenue, I skip.
→ Operators over commentators. People who built the thing, not people who tweet about it.
→ Respect for your time. No 20-minute ad breaks, no throat-clearing.
I paid $13,000 for a mastermind back when my SaaS was stuck at $15-20K/mo, and the biggest lesson was that proximity to people slightly ahead of you beats generic advice from billionaires. The best Hormozi alternatives give you that proximity for free.
1. Profitable Founder Podcast
Full disclosure: this one's mine.
I started it because The Game has one gap: Alex teaches from $100M+ scale. Useful, but when you're at $10K/mo, you need to see the messy middle, not the summit.
So every week I interview bootstrapped SaaS founders making $100K to $10M a year and make them show the real numbers. Breakcold at $25,000/mo with a bootstrapped CRM. Gojiberry at $3.5M/year with a LinkedIn AI agent. Chatbase hitting $1M ARR in 117 days. Sideshift at $8M/year.
42 episodes and counting, a new one every week. No VC guests, no "we raised a round" victory laps. Just founders who kept their equity, explaining exactly how they got their first customers and what they'd skip if they started over.
If you like Hormozi's "here is the playbook, go run it" style, this is the closest thing at bootstrapper scale.
Listen to the Profitable Founder Podcast →
2. Build with Leila Hormozi
The obvious one, and still underrated.
Leila crossed $100M in net worth by 28 and runs the operations side of Acquisition.com while Alex does the marketing side. Her show, Build, is past episode 384 with a 4.9-star rating from about 1,000 reviews on Apple Podcasts.
The difference: Alex teaches you how to get customers. Leila teaches you how to keep the machine from imploding after you get them. Hiring, firing, culture, managing your own psychology as the team grows.
A recent episode, "Right People, Right Seat," breaks down the framework she uses to figure out whether someone on the team is in the wrong position or just in the wrong season. That's the kind of problem The Game rarely touches.
If you listen to Alex for the frameworks, Build is the other half of the same brain trust.
3. My First Million
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr brainstorm business ideas every week, and it's the best "energy match" for Hormozi listeners on this list.
Sam sold The Hustle to HubSpot. Shaan sold Bebo to Twitch. So when they break down an opportunity it comes with the pattern recognition of two people who have actually cashed out.
They are at episode 856 and counting (the late-August one featured Wade Foster of Zapier). Where Hormozi gives you frameworks, MFM gives you raw idea volume: one episode can hand you five business ideas with rough math on each.
I wrote a full breakdown of podcasts like My First Million if that flavor's your thing.
4. Founders
David Senra reads biographies of history's greatest entrepreneurs and distills them into one obsessive episode each. No guests, no banter, just Senra and 10 years of notes.
He just published No. 432, "The Mind of Napoleon," in early September 2026. The show holds 4.9 stars across 8,700+ reviews, and Fortune profiled it in July 2026 noting that the CEOs of Coinbase and Ramp are regular listeners.
The Hormozi connection is the intensity. Alex talks about volume and obsession as the price of winning. Senra shows you what that looked like for Rockefeller, Estee Lauder, and Henry Singleton before "founder mode" was a phrase.
More picks in that direction in my list of podcasts like Founders.
5. The Diary of a CEO
Steven Bartlett's show is the biggest thing on this list: around 800 episodes, 120M+ downloads a month, 15M YouTube subscribers.
Why it belongs here: Hormozi himself is a repeat guest, and his DOAC appearances are some of his best long-form material. Bartlett pushes past the frameworks into the uncomfortable stuff, like what the $100M grind cost him personally.
Fair warning: DOAC has drifted broader than pure business. You will get neuroscientists and psychologists between the founder episodes. I treat it as a "pick your episodes" show rather than a subscribe-to-everything show.
If the interview format is what hooks you, I listed more podcasts like Diary of a CEO separately.
6. Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson is past episode 1,147, publishing three times a week, and Hormozi is one of his most frequent guests. Some of the most-quoted Hormozi clips on the internet come from Modern Wisdom episodes.
Strictly speaking it's not a business podcast. It's a "how to think" podcast that happens to book a lot of operators. Williamson's skill is asking the question one layer under the tactic: not "how do I get more customers" but "why do I keep sabotaging the boring work that gets customers."
I put Modern Wisdom on for long drives. It pairs with The Game the way a rest day pairs with training: you're not pushing, but something is still getting rebuilt.
7. The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk has been publishing daily since October 2014, and the feed is past 3,600 episodes. Keynotes, fireside chats, #AskGaryVee segments, all mixed together.
Gary and Alex want the same thing for you and go about it in opposite ways. Alex whiteboards the math of attention. Gary yells about where attention is moving before the math exists, and he's been right early at least twice (Twitter in 2007, TikTok in 2019). His 2026 material is mostly AI content and attention arbitrage.
The volume is chaotic and not every episode lands. But hearing "the market doesn't care about your feelings, do the reps" from a second voice keeps the message from becoming wallpaper. I dip in twice a week, usually the keynotes.
8. Noah Kagan Presents
Noah Kagan runs AppSumo, wrote Million Dollar Weekend, and has published 390 episodes since December 2016 with no fixed schedule. Some months it's guests. Some months it's just Noah opening AppSumo's books, revenue up or down.
That transparency is the draw. Hormozi shows you his portfolio's numbers in aggregate; Noah tells you his company lost 50% of revenue and walks through what they did next, with the actual figures.
It's the smallest show on this list and the most honest one. Start with the episodes where he audits his own business.
FAQ
What podcast is most similar to The Game with Alex Hormozi?
Build with Leila Hormozi is the closest match, since it comes from the same company and the same playbook, just focused on operations instead of acquisition. If you want the same tactical density from founders at an earlier stage, the Profitable Founder Podcast interviews bootstrapped SaaS founders between $100K and $10M a year and makes every guest share real revenue.
Is The Game with Alex Hormozi still running in 2026?
Yes. The show is past 1,100 episodes and publishes roughly one every 3 days. Alex uses it to document the journey from $100M to $1B in net worth, mixing solo breakdowns with recordings of his talks and Acquisition.com portfolio reviews.
Are these shows useful if I'm not at Hormozi's scale?
That's exactly why I ranked an interview show with bootstrapped founders at #1. Frameworks from a $100M operator are worth studying, but hearing how someone got from $5K/mo to $25K/mo last year is often more actionable. Mix one aspirational show with one at your stage.
Where should I start with Build with Leila Hormozi?
Start with her hiring and team episodes rather than the oldest ones. "Right People, Right Seat" is a good entry point: one framework, applied to a problem almost every founder past $20K/mo runs into. If it clicks, work backward through the catalog by topic instead of by date.
What is the best business podcast for SaaS founders specifically?
I keep a dedicated ranking of the best podcasts for SaaS founders. Short version: Profitable Founder for bootstrapped tactics, My First Million for ideas, and Founders for the long view.
The bottom line
Don't subscribe to all 8. That's content consumption cosplaying as work.
Pick two: one aspirational (Build, Founders, or DOAC) and one at your stage. Listen while you do the reps, steal one tactic a week, and ship it.
That's the whole game. Pun intended.
