Money Is All a Game

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.

[ES-wzdb]

I love it how you correct my default thinking patterns by asking the right question.

I have one for you guys to.

Ask yourself. You have a goal and you don’t know which part of the checklist is the most important

Take one task and simply ask yourself if I only would do this task and someone would give me 100k to not reach my goal while I am doing this task, would I reach my goal.

At some point you can’t get the 100k. This is "my one thing" for you.

[jordanhanson]

Just remember to love your family and people

[Oscar-eb]

Its a cool perspektiv to see the hole life as a game and not only the job.

[ES-wzdb]

A collab between you and Rick Rubin would be interesting.

[webuser]

Don't take life to seriously. In the End we all die, so enjoy the ride while it Last.

[Jeff_Thomas]

It's dope how he ends his shorts...

[nateolison]

HHH's theme song is gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of the day now, I just know it. 😂

[ryanhartigan]

A lot of the knowledge you learn for your business is not built from within your business itself.

[CabinetFramingUK]

Seeing a 40 year carpenter/plumber/whatever who still isn’t any good at it is always so disappointing. Yet all people are 40/50/60 year money makers and still not good at it

[YaminiGrover-tp]

if Business is a video game, then I am pretty sure my game is lagging and stuttering

[ericoschmitt]

But life is not all about just one game... And there are games meant to be enjoyed, not won.

[BarkelsLifts]

That's how I'm seeing it but it's Dark Souls

[cxa]

It's a game for people who have money. It's a struggle for life and death for people that don't.

[rockbandandghmaster]

Did this guy buy view bots and subscribers? He has so little interaction on his videos