Year 0 VS Year 4

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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[io]

His content is so relatable. Love this guy.

[YatesNet]

Yes power through! Improve with every new iteration repetition.

Sometimes a soft pivot is all you need.

[tomiarewa]

Doing one thing multiple times until you become a master at it

I needed to hear that!

[thechuckellis]

The 5 stages of business according to Alex:

1. Naive optimism
2. Educated Pessimism
3. Ditch of Discouragement
4. Educated Optimism
5. Success

[maripaul]

How many people needed to hear exactly this on this day👋🏽
Thank you Alex!!💪🏽

[bobbob-ggeo]

On year 4 still pre-revenue (basically) but about to launch on Amazon. Wish me luck!

[StrikingCrayon]

you're really on fire right now
so many less inaccuracies from a year ago

keep it up!

[happyice]

Thank you, needed to hear exactly this right now

[eleonoracollareda]

I'm on the Road to the 4th year and it's so hard... But i've started to ready your books 🎉

[ShaneDAZ]

Excellent Advice!!!... Thank you Alex 🎉 Kudos my Friend 🎉

[orangeapple]

Starting my year 3 of YouTube. I just got monetized but the revenue is too low right now. Figuring out how to scale and will start investing in editors to speed up my content pipeline.

[ms.jesuewalker]

I swear I need him to mentor me. Crazy how I bumped into him but was listening to one of the men in his organization before and didn’t know they were connected.

[SundaysTechLab]

*Iterative Repetition ♻️ is the watchword*

Such a novel ideology from Alex that'll stick to my head and help me combat shiny objects syndrome and chasing multi income sources at the same time.

[Powerhouseworldwide]

Yes . Year 🎉 of coffee & smoothies .

[stevengreidinger]

I don’t think most businesspeople ever master boss three. They never fully master finance, online sales and marketing, or HR.

[MariaAlii-ic]

He once talked about a book Arсhitect of Riches and I can’t believe how underrated it is. This book has some serious knowledge you won’t find anywhere, definitely changed my life.

[colaaddict]

if you dont make money after 6 months, just quit and dont waste time

[LaylaJenner-px]

It's crazy how little people talk about a book Arсhitect of Riches, can’t believe how underrated it is. This book has some serious knowledge you won’t find anywhere, changed my life.

[lmplppy]

Wait is he actually talking to someone in these videos🤣