I Love Vegas

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.

[YouTubeUserToo]

I’m super excited to never go to Vegas again in my life

[BBvidoes]

Exactly I just moved here and started my second business very excited to be in this city the people have been so welcoming!

[testnojohnny]

love Vegas but it absolutely does not have the best food in the world lol, not even close

[brytonduropan]

i lived in vegas for 19 years. it has hit the fan in the last 10 years. sad to move away, but the city is only getting worse.

[Oliverstihonn]

I’ve read a lot of books, but The Secret Doctrine of Wealth is on a whole different level. It’s the kind of knowledge that stays with you forever.

[anthonyar]

Vegas has low vibration type of people, food is expensive and commercial quality. Dry and hot. Dirt and sand. Nothing beautiful about it.

[grantayers]

Lived in Vegas for 18 months. It is depressingly hot in the summer.

[ardakip]

Been to vegas twice now, can clearly say vegas is great for people who have been no to nowhere else in the world

[MC]

Agreed, I do not gamble, but I love Vegas, it's a very nice city if you stay out of trouble. You can do a ton of fun things that don't involve drinking and gambling!

[Johnnyboi_]

If you are a normal civilian with no business. DO NOT MOVE HERE!!! Its slight better than cali, after the first 6months, you’ll quickly realize how boring and repetitive it is unless you are rich. Ive been here since 9, im 19 and leaving fs when the time is right. Also the temp if u dislike hot

[christophe_li]

Just got back from Vegas. I live in San Diego. Honestly you couldn’t pay me enough to move there lol

[timtill]

Oh wow, like we didnt know all of those things. Thank you for enlightening us

[thekiller]

I lived in Henderson for 14 years and honestly Vegas is only good on the eyes of people that never lived there

[davypaul]

Thank the Italian Americans that built it! 😉👌😎🙏

[kalykalypso]

Vegas was awesome before 2016. Moved in 2020 and never looked back. It's way more fun to visit vs. live there.

[xosfgyo]

Best food and beverage in the world is comical

[fearbabyriffs]

Nevada has no sales tax, but believe me you get overcharged on every other govt fee here compared to other states.

[a]

Vegas is a microcosm of the US. The "average" person, the person who loses all the money that allows the place to exist, that person subsidizes the people who go there who don't gamble.

[christianmatth]

Wow this definitely didn’t change my mind on never going to Vegas again in my life

[Rohan-bc]

Then, why do entrepreneurs shift their business to "Dubai" to go Zero tax, if Vegas is Zero tax? 🤔