How to Learn Skills FAST

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.

[JonnyRoss]

Marcus Aurelius (if you care what an old dead guy thinks) Also said he was taught to have has many high quality teachers as possible. My goal for making money is to be able to afford more teachers.

[dawnwebbmusic]

Love this way of learning! Cuts the frustration and procrastination out 🔥 Life application of the skill verses just telling and never applying.

[zendrox.von-laixer]

He's right bro. I've always sucked at math and have a hard time to understand even the basic things(algebra, linear, etc) but since having tuition one on one I've become better at understanding and applying my knowledge in math

[susanburger]

Millions and millions of dollars.
Dr. Evil, but smarter than his cat.😂😂

[shahid_lal]

High leverage of skill you are learning and tons of action.

[shivinunitholi]

Precisely why I prefer the 1-1 training. Pre recorded online coaching has never worked for me.

[a.educate]

What if we don't have $750 to spend per hour?

[Wouterferdinand]

Yeah but what you sell? Does it actually have value

[RootBeerBrody]

6 grand. Six Thousand USD To learn how to run an ad on FACEBOOK?! Youtube is a free resource still, right?

[tatianacordeiro]

Podia ter tradutor Português, vou ter que aprender inglês logo!

[russ]

Interested to know what guy you learned from?

[Motivationstation]

One on one would be great. Cant find anyone.

[MahfuzohMuhammad]

I paid someone $200 to teach me how to write EBOOK in 2014. Till now I made 6 figures selling ebook. 😁

[TRYumphCoaching]

Ok so realistically how many people can afford that? There is a lot of free stuff that can give you a good foundation but a lot of people are just to lazy.

[felixg.]

You know comment section theres this thing called saving money and if you spend your time working a little on the side to save $25 a week thats $100 a month in 8 months you could spend that money on someone like this and in the meantime you can research free shit on YouTube to figure out whos bull shitting you for the 750 and who knows their shit and is worth the 750 an hour

[susanburger]

6k?, What a waste of money. I guess he has not heard about SKILL SHARE then.😂😂 What a consumer, good with money too.💩🤡

[Lockface]

That won’t work for programming 💀 but for some skills it is possible
EDIT: maybe it is possible but it will take more than 8h

[martinjnagy]

Is this supposed to be good, realistic advice?

[TheHomiePopo]

This guy work effect ethic pisses me off. Now i need to out work this guy

[Go_rovers]

Advice is good but not everyone can afford $6k=Almost 5 Lakh INR for learning FB ads...