I almost failed my 1st semester of college

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.

[parma]

I had the same thing, always got straight As without doing shit. I got to uni and I passed but didn’t do well, took me two years to learn how to work hard.

Carried the momentum and built a business in third year while getting As again.

[Dontsunscribe]

I just started dual credit classes fulltime and I missed 4 assignments by accident by being so blinded, slow, and lazy. I'm hopeful to see that I can make it up.

[joshua_daniels]

That's so cool! Thank you for this perspective!

[shumatsuopost]

What a great mindset to have. Focusing on your goals purely will eventually lead you to success! Love this!

[nokubongabatyi]

I used to Ace exams without studying. I got to uni haibo struggling after putting so much effort in preparation😢

[thatboysteez]

I’m in the same position currently, always had this mindset my spring semester will be my hardest working one so far.

[hunterhills]

Yeah 9-9 don’t cut it for me haha I usually start around 8:45 and get done at 11:30

[maddienikki]

Iranian immigrant too, I just sent it to my son. Hopefully it inspires him!

[aliabdelmohsen]

Alex is your podcast only available for us users?

I've trying to listen to it and it just won't start and i have tried every platform

[tims]

The joys of living in America, I think it forces people to work personally. Working too hard isn't a good thing. Imagine what you missed out on whilst studying without a social life etc. Having money is obviously your biggest motivator, this a dynamic you have that your father didn't
This I'd what is so bad about America....looking for world domination

[Arman-srgu]

Eat carbs for dinner... what a bad advice

[dustinkrejci]

Excuse me. I want to say thank you for dropping 🪙 gold bars off at my front door 🚪.