You're Making A Big Mistake

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.

[cuccurullosimone]

✨️ don't listen to the people who are closest to you, listen to the people who are closest to your goals ✨️

[meredithmaher]

One million percent. I studied Econ had a good job in finance, followed the right path. When I started making art and “broke the script” the people who I thought would cheer me on were secretly questioning and doubting everything I did. -eventually now I enjoy being misunderstood because I don’t want to fit in with people I have no desire to emulate

[TheLadyEEffect]

Listen to the people who are closest to your goals! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Donny-G]

I remember a stand-up comedian had a bit that the audience cheers when she said she went off her meds, and it was the same crowd that cheered when she said she was starting them - most people don't actually care about you and are just playing the role they think they should be playing

[tomilola_ng]

So true, I figured this out this year too. I listen to the person that has achieved what I desire instead

[check]

Hormozi really said: "Your acceptance means nothing to me, I've seen what elicits your rejection."

[MountainofInspiration]

You went from happy news for your friends and family to becoming the best news for them.

[Wealth__]

Listen to people who are closest to my goals and not to people who are closest to me

[DBRBookkeeping]

DBR understands you!
Don't Listen to the People Closest to You!
Listen to the People Closest to YOUR GOALS!

[vvs]

Can you blame them tho? You can’t fault them for having that opinion when it’s derived from probabilities

[Cyrusw]

Never resonated with a short as much as this one

[ianidas]

I just quit my corporate job but no one is saying it’s a bad idea…

[janh]

N standard would bring us somewhere qhere we probbly already were

[Marking_The_Way]

Sometimes Alex's story doesn't even seem real 😅 Establishing himself just to restart from scratch to then become ultra successful 😵‍💫

[kennychewe]

I need people who have successfully launched a software as a service business

[grant]

I've seen alot of people quit their jobs and just end up poor and broke, they started their own businesses but they failed.

[BS-gkcb]

Bad generic advice. Life has a lot of complex decisions and it’s almost always a good idea to gauge the risk in your decisions by getting the temperature of the room. The people around you probably aren’t stupid. If you say to them “im quitting college and becoming an influencer” it’s not a bad idea to see the reactions of people you respect and care about. Simply prioritizing your goals assumes your judgement is flawless and doesn’t need external input to thrive. It isn’t. Hate this shit that just says dump your loved ones, they holdin you back. More often than not, they’re keeping you from spilling over a cliff.

[AnnaSalazar-fb]

Your channel is a real find for everyone who is looking for a share of good mood and joyful moments. Keep inspiring and making our days better!💥💽🎬

[LeaLariosa-lx]

Your channel is a real encyclopedia of quality content. Continue to please us with new videos!🟡🐻🏒