Follow This Advice If You Want To Be In The Top 1%

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.

[wzec]

So applicable to all areas of life. Needed to hear this!

[simplyInvent]

wow that blew my socks ff, im gonna live by this now.

[significantsea]

so logically and simple yet the hardest thing to do !!!

[KyMalveaux]

Oh man! Such a lonely journey. Thanks for sharing!

[stefan-stocksmadesimple]

Anyone notice how the beginning of the video has higher volume (hook), then it gradually lowers down to lure you in and make you pay attention... Very clever! 👀👍

[nadjib]

Even tho I'm not a fan of short forms of content ( shorts) but I like how this man speaks

[MarketingHarry]

It's logical, still thanks for the mild reminder! 😉👌

[neginkalan]

You're right👌, and I think this change is painful but it's worth it

[TokyoTaisu]

I was a top 0.5%-er in my country, the Netherlands age 26, self-made, no crypto. The path is really lonely and instead of people being happy for you they become jealous of you.

[JashimJalal]

Well that certainky puts things into perspective! 🙏

[Squid]

My dad was diagnosed with dementia about 12 years ago when I was 9 and he died 6months ago, i got abt 150k from his life insurance, if you have any real estate deals I can get in on lmk, I’ll move anywhere

[sahilbisht]

its so hard sometimes you feel you are getting behind coz you are doing things differently & sure enough its very lonely

[leonardshevlin]

Too many people think there's something extraordinary about the 99th percentile.
An American man who is almost 6'4" is in the 99th percentile. Charles Barkley and Yao Ming are both in the Top One Percent in height.
99th percentile is a reasonable goal for a young man with a strong drive to succeed.

[SHANONisRegenerate]

Alex im hearing you bro! Ive lost most of the plebs i used to hang with because they are stuck bro. I want to know have you ever lived on or owned a small farm or ever aspire to do so?

[iamhem]

Ohhhh my Goodness… I just had a life changing revelation

[seenitalready]

This is the exact realization I came to at 21 - Maybe I am on the right track..

[lorenzom]

Found the same concept in games, where people try to teach you how to play, when you already master it from 500h+ xD

[jessebusma]

Cultivating a strong trust of your intuition and data will help you resist groupthink

[jayking]

Why he put his hands like that in the beginning lol

[WorldsForemostAuthority]

Hm, but just because you're walking thru the forest in a different direction than the other 99% doesn't mean you're moving in a positive direction. So, how do you know the direction is beneficial/positive??