They Tried to Sue Me...

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.

[Deestroyer]

So He steals someone's copy who stole yours then trys to start and sue people for using the copy...? What a piece of crap.

[caiden]

This story has me smiling!😆The lawyer's response!

[jasn]

You should send him back the same cease and desist

[wimeatsworld]

Stealing is one thing.
Trying to even steal the credits is a whole different level.

[KhaozVoid]

When your own lawyer has to apologize for your stupidity, you know it's bad.

[truevegas]

I had a record label try to sue me for using a melody their artist used in one of their tracks. The problem was, their artist used the melody from a very popular sound pack that I created, and the licence specifically stated the melody must be altered in pitch or some other way, which their artist hadn't done. So I sued them back for breach of licencing and copyright and pocketed a $1.5M settlement. Satisfying to say the least 😂

[scotttcp]

This happened to me with my copy and website 20yrs ago. Over 1000 websites were flat out using my entire website copy.

[evan]

That extra oxygen he’s getting is really hitting.

[codyhensley]

I received a copyright strike on one of my songs from a group who had done a remix of a song, claiming that I had stolen the tune from them. Come to find out, my song was around 2 years older than theirs. Lol.

[PapaChris]

Those are the eyes of a man that hasnt slept and is running on "assistance"

[daddyroblox]

Fun fact: if you swipe left on the screen while watching a short, it goes to their home pages 😊

[travisminneapolis]

You pulled the REVERSE UNO CARD on them. 😂

[MaxGuides]

You can always retroactively retract permission to use your work after businesses have put a ton of money behind it without thinking to license it from you first, they love it when you do that.

[branwhite]

99% if little ppl who use lawyers are stupid. Af. Ask your contractors

[votrenom-hn]

Alex is a creative writer.
Simply, your brain will never stop coming up with great copies,
People copy you. It's a sign of power and intelligence

[ghostshrimp]

i love how people have no shame in taking credit for creative products that arent theirs. Humans are so lovely ❤

[orlock]

The guitar company PRS tried to sue another guitar business that used images of birds as inlays. That guitar business has a 1970s article, with pictures of the guitars, from a magazine. PRS was founded in the mid 1980s.

[Goofygoober-dy]

That shows how good of a businessman alex hormozi is

[gregcastagneri]

The lawyer didn't do his due diligence. Not only is the client stupid but it sounds like the lawyer wasn't up to par either.

[slick]

When someone says "hey bro" you know they about to give u a reality check.