Succeed Despise the Circumstances

How I got here…

21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.

Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos).

To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit,

Alex

*FULL DISCLOSURE*
I make content to make money - just - on a longer time horizon than most. I want to build trust with business owners so we can find the best ones and help them scale. And if they’re awesome, write them a check and go all the way as partners.

[digitalplayground]

"...power follows the blame finger..."

Straight up.

[jonnyares]

Take responsibility for things that are not your fault and you become more powerful than the things that would oppress you.

[ahmaanhunt]

Being born to parents who's "blackness" was on trial for the world to see(my mom desegregated her high school and my dad fought in Vietnam), I can honestly say that making EDUCATION a priority can beat ANY form of oppression. My parents made themselves so valuable through college, that their skillsets couldn't be denied by any organization. Thanks to their foundation, I've honestly never had to worry about not being successful in life.

[max_ames]

It’s not your fault but it is your problem

[TheBigChallengeOfLife]

The best thing I ever did was to turn the blaming finger around and on myself.

All of a sudden, I became healthier, more productive, better relationships and made better decisions overall.

It’s so hard to take accountability, it tools me years & especially when you are not where you want to be with a certain goal… but I promise you, once you suck it up and take accountability.

Your life will change for the better, forever.

👏🏻

[shumatsuopost]

Whether it's through our actions, our words, or just being our authentic selves, we can make a positive impact on those around us.

[SnowyBlizzard]

If it’s not your fault, the moment you accept responsibility to take action on it is when you take back that power, this is what Alex is trying to say

[UrbanRecordingCompany]

I almost always have a part in it….that is the focus. I can’t change you sure, but if I can’t change me then I am screwed. That is where all of the power is!

[corderomartin]

“What if it’s not your fault” was he not listening to anything Alex said at all? The hell?

[TheChristianImperialist]

The fact that the dialogue is about equity rather than access means that the trails have already been blazed. Anyone who is claiming oppression is self-deluded, thanks to poor public education.

Thus Alex is correct, it's more about mindset than "bondage."

[starbuckjones]

it doesn't matter...And? Gold right there. Go do the thing and be an inspiration to others.

[killersredsniper]

Corrected Title: Succeed DespiTe your circumstances

[HoodReviews]

What if the decision you make elevates you, but will hurt those around? Especially the closest to your circle such as family and friends?

[hussain_a]

Despite*. Regardless, a very powerful vid!

[giuseppebiundo]

"As a white guy."

-An Iranian son of an Immigrant