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Todd Hagopian is the author of The Unfair Advantage: Weaponizing the Hypomanic Toolbox, a 2026 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite and 2025 NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite, and Stagnation Assassin: The Anti-Consultant Manifesto, winner of a 2026 Literary Titan Gold Book Award. He hosts The Stagnation Assassin Show, a 2026 Gold Stevie Award winner at the American Business Awards, and holds an MBA from Michigan State University.

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887–2: What the Greatest Wrestler Who Ever Lived Taught Me About Transformation

Say the name Aleksandr Karelin to anyone who knows wrestling and watch the reaction. Thirteen years undefeated. Nine World Championships. Three Olympic gold medals. A career record of 887 wins against 2 losses, and six consecutive years in which no opponent scored a single point against him.

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“Standard 80/20 is base camp. The 80/20² recursion is the summit. While your competitors spread resources across their top 20%, you concentrate 80% of yours on the 4%. The gap is not strategic — it is mathematical. And mathematical gaps do not close through effort. They close through surrender.”
― Todd Hagopian

“Most orthodoxies are opinions masquerading as facts. Facts have data. Opinions have defenders. Your job is to ask for the data — and be ready for the silence that follows.”
― Todd Hagopian

“887-2 is not a wrestling record, it is a business model.”
― Todd Hagopian

“Every product you refuse to kill is a vote against the customers and combinations that are actually keeping your business alive.”
― Todd Hagopian

“If you want a fiction story of how these frameworks were forged in the fire of mental illness and how the frameworks play out in real life business scenarios, read The Unfair Advantage. If you want to deploy the weapons immediately, you're holding the right book.”
― Todd Hagopian

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