It Sucks To Not Be Liked

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.

[JazDeVer]

"The lion does not concern itself with the opinion of sheep"

[reallifemain]

Life is the most difficult exam

Many people fail trying to copy others, not realizing everyone has a different question paper

[brainfreshtoday]

Love the phrase- don’t take criticism from someone you would not take advice from! Thank you!

[brianteskey]

Damn right!! Always be yourself and you will attract the right people ! If you are not yourself you will attract the wrong one and push away the right

[consciousleepr]

I’m sitting here writing my goals after being treated like sh*t for most of 2024. All because I wanted the approval of so-called peers/colleagues! This just came up on my feed and I haven’t said a word to anyone. Thank you.

[divjot]

Woah! 🌟🌟🌟 Where is the whole podcast? Can't seem to find it on the channel

[Gmyz]

People disliked very opposite mindsets. Very opposite mindsets surge from learning lots of things people do not, and this problem will stay forever.

[johnpalooka]

I tought he was a grifter but after watching his videos i realized he is a very interesting, wise person

[LinaKriebel]

Watching your channel is like an inspiring adventure that never ends. Continue to amaze us with your talent!🐦🏕🌇

[australiangirl]

Sometimes you can't ever be liked though, even as yourself.

Over the past year I've had 2 guys who really liked me flip & hate me because I never returned their affections.

It didn't matter that I was in a relationship, they knew it, but sometimes Haters are just people who liked you so much, it hurt less to Hate you instead.