How to Make A Billion Dollars

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.

[cassiejacobs]

Every family has that one person who will break the family financial struggle I hope you become the one ☺️

[KuyeUnfiltered]

The value this guy gives away for free is ridiculous. So many people do not explain these concepts at all. I pray he stays doing what he’s doing. I’ll be up there with him in my long term as well.

[jackdavid]

Successful people don't become that way overnight. most people see at a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose-is the result of hard work and hustle over time. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life

[Johngoldbranson]

Probably THE most aesthetically pleasing video you’ve made. Animations, music, gradient overlays etc. Dope! You also blew my mind as usual. My wellness brand is going to be in a whole different place in 10 years thanks to this video!

[Veewatchman]

Your educational skit is Addictive, man!

Never seen anything like it, relatively easy to digest the broken down/described components.

[alphamoneyacademy]

It's exponentially easier to multiply your money when you already have enough capital. Money makes money with the right mindset, the right preparation and the right team.

[edchandler]

I feel like I need to watch this video every morning for a month straight and just re-code my brain to default to this frame.

[arnellebby]

Total mindset shift! Appreciate all your content 🙏🏽

[say_hi_rum]

Wow…that was awesome. Love how you broke that down in such detail, in a simple to understand way, in a 6 minute video lol

[KyleChasseCrypto]

Straight to the point, logical & concise. Smashed it man!

[noahshaffer]

You are literally my new favorite youtuber. So much value.

[PatrickPrommel]

This summarized everything I learned my second year of my MBA at Wharton.

Now working in the industry acquiring businesses, working on my YouTube channel, and hitting gym, I have to say Alex is the 🐐.

[iykazorji]

So good I watched this three times. Thanks Alex 🙏🏽

[itsajaysharma]

Holy crap! *This just *BLEW MY MIND** ! Gdamm Alex, you smashed this one out of the park!
PS. Video editor needs a raise!! I guarantee this got vid high retention! Great work!

[podcastsyoutube]

Great to see you've finally invested in the production level of your videos. The editing on these is ‎‍🔥‎‍🔥‎‍🔥

[Denniss]

Love the breakdown. I've gradually built my finance and made my first $100k through investing, and with what I’ve learned over a decade investing, given enough time, solid investments have the potential to double the initial principal amount, but many investors are instead attracted to the lure of high yields in short periods of time despite the possibility of unattractive losses before even getting out. So the onus is on newbies to beware.

[mikehome]

It’s rare that I can say a YouTube video expanded my mind in such a practical manner. Like not airy-fairy “dream big” motivation stuff.
I didn’t know becoming a billionaire was so reachable for someone working hard enough at it.
My current belief was capped at the multi-millionaire level, thinking that billionaire was only possible for IQ and really well connected people

[alejandrohpcb]

This is soo good. Man, been reading 'How To Be A Billionaire' by Fridson, and overlaps some of what you share. But you clarified it for me too. Gold man

[kavangrant]

The book showed up yesterday, and I’m just taking a quick break to watch this video, I’ll finish reading it tonight, what a ride! I had what seems like an audacious goal… the more I absorb your content the more it looks doable. Loving the book so far BTW.

[franciscoflorez]

Bro I love your videos. Just subscribed today. Thanks for all the knowledge