Why People Get Stuck In the Rat Race

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.

[capitalallocator]

i’ve worked in corporate and almost every other person i met was miserable. they pretended to be happy but deep down they felt unfulfilled.

[ARockRaider]

i dont think its just that they are "to coward to change" its just as likely they havent a clue where to find out what they actually like.

[garypalmer]

During my working years 1973 to 2017 I worked an average of 3 months a year each summer June to August and took September to May off to travel by backpacking and bicycle touring all over N. America. In those 44 years I only worked 12. I never got in debt, and retired age 62 on my birthday in mid January 2018. I never learned to drive but traveled by bike all over the USA. Never married, no mortgage. Now I live in hud vash housing paying $255 for a $1900 apartment since I was 64.

[rumham]

Hoping we all choose to make things great again soon.

[rockyblumble]

Harsh truth! Tell them what they need to hear, not what they want to hear.

[EndlessTeaz]

Yup … my back is bad and the military won’t give me 100% but I still grind on for followers 😂

[Warweazel]

It's crazy that this guy says people are cowards and undisciplined then immediately says those same people are physically broken from thankless work they started 25 years ago.

[epicpolyphony]

Massive over-generalizations, but sure. Why not. 🤷‍♂️

[actuallybraveofficial]

For those that don't know, Alex is very clearly trying to prove to somebody that he is something, perhaps everybody rather than somebody. Do you really think a grown man talking to mostly money-hungry teenagers on the internet is truly content and happy? Alex is very clearly stressed and unhappy. I wouldn't take advice from someone telling your time is important whilst he spends an incredible amount of time giving very similar talking points and vague business advice.