My Modified Gym Bag

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.

[Aholland]

I use a wicker basket adorned with flowers. I frolic into the gym.

[realcoolguy]

Haha I feel a lot better hauling around a tool bag to the gym now 😅.

[adam-nwcn]

nice application of first principle thinking

[marckez]

That looks like you bout to clean the gym

[BanditoMike]

Alex, i love all the content and so thankful for all the knowledge you pass on but i aint rockin a tool bag at the gym 😅

[AndreTheFreelancer]

Yeah man, you like pockets. Probably the DB Backpack with photography lens pockets would work as well

[JTient]

I own a backpack tool bag not for the gym but it exists

[alca_pwn_]

attach a sling over. east install of holes and hooks.

[hookinwithheine]

I use a Safeway handheld grocery basket 🤷🏻‍♂️

[TrevorBoggs]

bro, you are hyperanalytical — and I’m here for it

[hotsauceislethal]

Life hack- you can make anything into a backstrap with string.

[joffa]

Another one: where Alex telle You how to provide value to him, make him a copy of the bag, and add backplate+straps

[mavamQ]

I'm watching a short, no info about the bag.

[TheCryptoMiner]

What is up with that bandaid on the nose?

[jengsterinc]

100 scores on practicality but almost 0 score on aesthetics. Hope one day there will be a balance in your lifestyle to appreciate art and beauty.

[isavedharlem]

You have all these millions and can’t get a custom bag made ? Lol what’s a shuckster