Big Business Tiny Team

Each week I share deep-dive breakdowns and playbooks on building a big business with a tiny team.

Founder & Writer

The 20 Hour CEO

Named "Top 100 Course" by Maven. Entrepreneurs master the frameworks to turn their business into a machine that runs without them.

Founder

Christine Carrillo

Exclusive partner to top percentile CEOs helping them build resilience while leading successful big businesses.

CEO Coach

Alice

We help CEOs hire vetted executive assistants specifically trained to help CEOs scale.

Butlr Health

We match people with highly vetted therapists using a dating app framework.

JOANY

Alum Techstars NYC 2015. JOANY helps consumers buy and use health insurance.

Humanize Health

Kaiser Permanente

Director, Medicare Business Excellence

DestinationRx

Director of Professional Services

Capital Group Companies

Senior Business Consultant

You don’t have to burn yourself out to build a successful business.

I learned that the hard way.

On paper, everything looked great.
✔ Built three businesses to $200M in revenue
✔ Bootstrapped a service business to $25M with 25 people in five years
✔ Scaled a VC-backed tech company to $28M ARR in under two years with just 12 people
✔ Made a double-sided consumer marketplace profitable in three months with a five-person team
✔ Raised $30M in venture capital

But behind the scenes, I was exhausted, constantly putting out fires, and convinced the business would fall apart if I stepped away.

So I pushed harder, thinking that was the only way.

Then life forced me to stop.

I ran headfirst into a glass window. A concussion took me out for eight weeks. No emails, no meetings, no problem-solving. For the first time, I couldn’t step in to fix things.

And when I came back, I was shocked. The business hadn’t just survived. It had thrived.

That moment forced me to question everything.

I always thought the key to scaling was working harder and building better systems. And systems did help. But what really made the difference wasn’t the business. It was me.

I had built a company that depended on me, not because it had to, but because I didn’t know how to let go. I believed that stepping back meant losing control. That if I wasn’t involved in everything, things would fall apart.

That belief had to change.

Learning to trust my team, step back, and stop being the bottleneck wasn’t easy. But once I did, everything changed.

The systems worked because I let them. My team thrived because I gave them space. And the business grew faster than ever, not because I was in every decision, but because I wasn’t.

Now, I help founders do the same.

Most founders come to me because they feel stuck. They’re scaling, but at the cost of their time, health, and freedom. It doesn’t have to be that way.

If you’re ready to build a business that grows without you being in the weeds, join me for daily insights on scaling, leadership, and personal growth.

Let’s get started.
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Growth isn’t about being ready.

It’s about doing what scares you.

Listen, I've been there.

It's hard to believe in yourself at first.

I chased external validation and it was driven by fear.
→ "What if I lose control?"
→ "What if I let down the people counting on me?"
→ "What if I let myself down?"

I was so focused on doing things the right way I was holding myself back.

Then I realised: No one is ready.

The ones who grow fast:
→ Say yes before they have all the answers.
→ Trust that action beats overthinking.
→ Figure it out along the way.

The biggest risks don't come from failing.
They come from never starting.

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The 20 Hour CEO. Built 3 businesses to $200M in revenue. Now helping entrepreneurs scale themselves, and their business, with less effort.

BC Group, LLC

Larry Baldwin is a healthcare payer executive and consultant with experience across multiple healthcare payer functions and disciplines. While Larry has frequently partnered with health plans in the Medicare Advantage and government programs space, he applies his practices across all health plan products, commercial and government programs, and a spectrum of business functions. 

As a leader and advisor for organizations like Kaiser Permanente, Molina Healthcare, Farm Bureau Health Plans, and several Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies, Larry has a track record of promoting, modeling, and strengthening connections across stakeholders, teaching and implementing enterprise business and technology readiness, and helping all levels of personnel adopt large-scale change. 

In addition to healthcare payer administration, Larry also has many years of leadership experience in the finance industry

Services include: 

Program Management 
Quality Improvement 
Strategic Planning
Financial Advisory
Technical Consulting
Operational Efficiency
Executive Leadership Coaching

As needed, Larry may be available to serve in an interim executive or management role.

Healthcare Payer Executive and Founder

Molina Healthcare

Led membership enrollment and eligibility functions during period of extraordinary growth and business transformation for the ACA/healthcare exchange business segment. Provided organizational readiness leadership for strategic initiatives.

ACA/Exchange Marketplace Operations

Led Medicare membership operations serving 1.2 million Kaiser Medicare members, leading change and coaching teams through system implementations, organizational restructure, extraordinary membership growth, and quality and process improvements. 

Built new shared service/center of excellence – the Medicare Risk Mitigation Team (MRMT), installing and leading new audit readiness, reporting and analytics, training, quality monitoring, business analysis and process improvement functions. 

Also led several health plan business units and numerous organizational change initiatives, including member services for commercial and Medicare operations, program and project management, business systems, and broker compensation.

Medicare Operations and Risk Mitigation

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Led strategic programs during transformation and rebuilding, including centralizing national default service functions. Built business reporting and accounts payable units, created new gain/loss decision tool and installed new vendor management processes

Home Finance/Mortgage Servicing

Wells Fargo Bank

Led mortgage servicing operations teams and process automation/workflow improvement efforts, developed staffing models, implemented contact center scheduling and incentive programs, and led vendor onboarding and contract negotiations

Mortgage Servicing

Larry Baldwin is a healthcare payer executive and founder of BC Group, LLC, a consulting firm that provides deep experience and highly qualified resources for multiple healthcare payer functions and disciplines. While Larry has built a reputation for working in the Medicare Advantage space, he applies his practices across all health plan products and business functions. 

As a leader and advisor, Larry promotes building and strengthening connections across stakeholders, teaching and modeling enterprise business and technology readiness, and helping all levels of personnel adopt large-scale change. 

Besides healthcare administration, Larry also has many years of leadership experience in the finance industry. He earned an MBA at the University of San Diego and a bachelor’s degree in communication studies at Point Loma Nazarene University.

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