Independent people have taught, ranked, and practiced the 9 Triangles in public. These are the ones we can cite with a URL. We do not invent praise.
In 783 episodes, I’ve never heard business success summarized this well. This is an episode that will instantly go in the “best of” category.
— Michael O’Neal, host, Solopreneur Hour #783 (2019). He nicknamed it “the 9 triangles of destiny.” A listener named Jim wrote underneath: “I found this really useful. Loved the 9 triangles.”
This covers the 9 Triangle Business framework that has been published by BlitzMetrics in order to help agency owners build and scale their agency… The nine-triangle framework will allow your agency to increase efficiency, improve performance, and organize every single aspect to be in line with your overall goals.
— Rich Mahre, The 9-Triangle Business Framework (3 Sep 2020). A full teaching post, not a reshare.
Dennis is also the inventor of the 9 Triangles Framework, which partners with schools to train young adults.
— Dr. Kim R. Grimes, Moving Beyond Excuses, Part 6 (12 May 2022), linking the YouTube playlist.
Understanding The 9 Triangles is essential to being a good specialist.
— Content Factory Academy, where the framework is filed as a fundamental / top course, with a lesson on each triangle and the pairings.
Dylan Haugen did not write a compliment. He ran the triangle. In May 2025 he published How “Do, Delegate, Delete” Cleared My Inbox and Increased my Productivity — a specialist practicing DDD in public, which is the point of LDT.
The High-Rise Influence workshop from 8 Sep 2020 is still up on the BlitzMetrics channel: 9 Business Triangles for Growth: From Specialist to Systems and Scale. Listen Notes carries the Marketing Mechanic walkthrough as its own episode page.
On my side of the table, the thing I hear after masterminds is still this framework — which is why the long-form essay opens that way. That is feedback, not a third-party citation, so it lives in the essay: The 9 Triangles Framework.