I Love My Goals More Than Most People...

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.

[ace]

Trust that the people most of you worry about prioritize themselves over you. It's just about giving the same energy you receive. Unless someone has shown you that deep love and sacrifice, I wouldn't go too far out the way either...

[Aspiiire]

It's less selfish than prioritizing what other people say you have to do or be!

[AnaGfit]

When your goals are making an impact that helps way more people than if you don’t go after them and also allows you to live authentically, then that’s not selfish.
That’s actually service.

[scoobym]

Thank you for your honesty. So many pretend to be self-less like martyrs and it is often utter bs. Be you unapologetically🎉

[TRXST.ISSUES]

I respect the honesty.

For most people watching, goals can’t care about you the way good people can.

When I’m 80 I’d be happier choosing a dog over $1, 000, 000.

Money can’t buy certain things and shouldn’t be a scoreboard for your life.

[laboatingandfishing]

Dudes been on a roll ever since he did that Geico commercial

[check]

maybe read 'the virtue of selfishness' by ayn rand. being rationally self interested is a virtue not a vice.

[anthonyrodriguez]

I love you too man.... you have such a strong sense of being... it's hard to watch you too much.. makes me feel like I should be more like you.. good thing.. though I will continue to watch you.. !!exciting sinfo.

[ScottGustafsonOfficial]

Your goals include helping other people attain a better way of life and that's not selfish at all.

[shaco]

That's normal, and healthy. And everybody is like that. The difference is, they are not in a position where they have to choose and you are...

[BobbyMasteria]

thanks to whoever brought back hormozi's shirt

[TechOutAdam]

Funny thing is he can helps others more than they can help with because of it so it’s actually not selfish.

[DeadShoot-epfn]

Literally everybody prioritize own self, but not all of us can be honest to say that

[jamesharren]

Relatable. most people will be a distraction or an opponent to personal achievements l

[ДмитрийЕлькин-фу]

This guy says he's selfish, but at the same time he's impacted millions of people. Is it a real definition of being selfish?

[anobody]

You need this selfishness for true selflessness to arise.

Most people will waste your time and ruin your life. And in that ruined state you won't be able to do any true noble selfless act.

So this is the essential step to be truly selfless.

[THI_EXTERNAL]

i mean it sounds bad, but that's how it should be life IS TOO SHORT TO DO THINGS YOU HATE

[Orah]

Selfish us not the word it’s called foucus and maintance

[tinaperez]

His goals have and will continue to have the result of making the world / people's lives better. This guy's "selfishness" is a complete 180° from the kind of selfishness of rape and pillage strip em for parts private equity and robber barons of the second gilded age we're in now, very similar to the first robber baron gilded age of the late 1800's - early 1900's industrial era. If what he's doing is what he considers selfish, I hope he never stops.

[JDunamis]

Alex does a lot of good while focusing on his goals. The Bible says a dream comes by a multitude of business. "For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words." - Ephesians 5:3 KJV

If your dream is to help a lot of people then you should do a multitude of business. Now that's a good tweet straight out of the Bible.