We got married after 9 months

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.

[GetUnlabeled]

Alex has a signature way of telling the best stories, filled with the most minute details, the kind people don't usually include, and it's utterly brilliant

[Bwnasty]

The honeymoon was a good gym work out & post bedroom cardio then room service. I bet I’m close enough accurate 😂

[Uservfjhejf]

They know they don't need to spend a bunch of money on a fancy wedding

[rico-suave]

Thank you for helping me plan my wedding Alex!

[kieranblest]

All my life I've felt that this is exactly how it should be. Cut the BS. Can me and this person help eachother with whatever we choose to do? Do we have a ring? Is there a church nearby? Great let's get married 😂

[GoneGYT]

My favorite thing about this story is the part where he explains it wasn't love that lead him to this and proceeds to explain his very real true made for eachother love story

[davidsno]

You can tell Alex has a great sense of humor and sense for value in life. They both do. And they’re killin the game 👊🏽🤙🏽

[ahmaanhunt]

Thank you for validating my reasoning for not having a huge wedding, LOL!

[CharlesMacro]

Real Love doesn't have to Put On A Show. When she cares too much about the wedding, RUN!

[Baba.Yaga_]

This is exactly how I married my wife. Best decision we ever made.

[MrAklife]

Y’all are perfect for each other f*** the comments

[bananaman]

Most comments claims he knows how to cut the BS, but for me, it seems he's extremely self-centered.

[BrianShiitakeOfficial]

My wife and I got engaged after 3 weeks, married a few months later, had a daughter almost exactly one year after married! And that was almost 5 years ago

[Jamminyea]

That cut added in with Leila was so funny 😂

[AscendedMasculine]

Alex be like, "Love is a biochemical reaction designed to make us procreate as a species"

[barlitosantana]

And that’s why the pair so well, any woman who will just go along with you regardless of what happens is a keeper, even more when she doesn’t demand an arm and leg from you for a wedding and other grandiose shit

[ImLegend]

Dude. Congrats 🎉. Definitely a keeper.

[SriniGundelli]

😂😂😂😂 the face of those people after you said you both got married… daymmm …we didn’t get the invite for free food and booze!!! 😅

[juliusfishman]

This man is crazy he just married her to keep the business safe

[LOLZHAHANOTFUNNY]

Husband and I were married after 18 months of knowing each other, our moms just met us at the JP on a Wednesday afternoon. Went out for beer and burgers afterwards. Our first child is 16 months old, she is the light of our lives 🥰 When you know, you know!