The Garlic And The Ham Story

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

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[tylerf]

This is a solid analogy except garlic is poisonous to dogs lol

[chelo]

What a genius! Garlic for lunch and dark chocolate for desert. Never again any ticks problem with that dog. Sheeee!

[freedomconcatenations]

100% Give people what they want in order to give them what they need.

[darkskinwhite]

the ticks are gone but so is the dog 😂

[PhysiqueForLifeLLC]

Alex is so good at using metaphor and story👍

[chandlerricks]

This just blew my mind. Changing my offer tonight because of thia

[ivlog]

Dogs die from garlic please keep in mind that there are lots of kids following you who may not understand how important it is to NOT give garlic to a dog

[sltysailor]

He fails to mention grandma HATES that dog.

[DashFlashTheLife]

Law 49: There is always a self interest, regardless if you choose to ignore it

[katrinabeethechange]

God bless you and keep you
young man...

[FishingParrot]

I'm a tech seller and I put a garlic inside of every product. No more tics for my customers. 💪

[dreamchaser]

I will actually start using it for myself first – I hate exercising and am the biggest procrastinator

[ballindigital]

Yes! I’ve always said this..

“Tell them what they want to hear and give them what they need.”

[xeropunt]

smart, disciplined, driven, experienced…but the best way to sell imo is to provide the BEST/EFFECTIVE product. we all want worthy quality. nothing else…

[Unreached_destiny]

We all know this but sometimes we forget it

[thorie]

I tried this and the ticks are gone! But so is my dog rip

[jfdb]

My business is selling people services that aren’t fun or enjoyable purchases for the most part. Lately I’ve been thinking about how I can repackage that to be more palatable. This came at the right time.

[Dyejk]

i know what you are trying to say, but my dog is such a good one, she'd take her medicine without any ham😅 and even BETTER, she is more likely to take it if she had to DO something for it. 😂 but that is a good analogy too, it's like making sure your leads are qualified!

[matthewhoang]

Instructions unclear, now I have a dog

[cquickk]

Alex my boy dropping the gold nuggets since 2020 and never stops