I DON'T Read Books

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.

[Kyngte]

We definitely need a tutorial or visual explanation. Because this might change the way some people read books and make studying easier.

[A.OfficialChannel]

Damn bro, this might be the exact moment I finally pick up that book everyone’s been recommending me. Shoutouts! Never thought of it like this

[soniamilan]

We'd really appreciate if you could go into detail on how you do it in a separate video.

I'm 15 and this literally spun my head around for 2 hours since I read a book a week lol.

[Crescentmoony]

This is brilliant! Keeps you on track and implementing what you learn

[Mychalclark]

Hey Alex, learning from you. Hope I succeed with your input

[ThembaMkandla]

Very useful framework, thank you for this.

[jordicanedo]

You should do a video on your note taking strategy, I find myself taking notes but making a mess and it becomes more of a organization task than a deep analysis 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

[havenamz]

A long form video on this would be truly appreciated

[mweiss]

Alexis an information vacuum. He hoover's up what useful and APPLIES it. That's the secret sauce.

[omarb.]

I love that you don’t add music to your videos. Thank you so much

[wishyouwerehere]

That’s what I do when I listen to audio books. Take notes. But going through the notes and making action plans is something I picked up from this video 💪

[ahmaanhunt]

That's so effective! As a casual reader, I read books and listen to audiobooks like sitcoms and movies, LOL. The subject matter has to impact me immediately in order for it to become sticky.

[sarahb]

Id pay to buy his action item notes from all the books he's read

[viera]

this guy probably have like 150 of iq. He's really humble, but the more you watch his videos and podcast, the more you realize that he's not only wise, but the way that he organize his thoughts, make his mind much more efficient, and this is probably result of years and years working on this type of mindset.
(Btw at school that guy were such a goat too)

[hauling]

Damn....that is brilliant next level stuff.
I will start doing this.

[monicavallero]

That’s basically a part time job! That’s why it’s important to pick and choose. Listening to his book rn and I feel I’ll have to go back and do exactly what he just said 😅

[hmulli]

This is is class
1. Read
2. Organise
3. Priorities
No remembering needed.

[awakening]

This is basically an advanced version of the zettelkasten system

[theMerdan]

Alex, you should make a video on how you study books

[TheJackedLawyer]

This is a great strategy for taking notes in school as well