Hiring Your First Employee

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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.
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And don't micro manage them. That wastes your time while literally costing you money. If you have to micromanage them they aren't the right person or you aren't ready.

DANiELLEfineArt
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Wow, thank you for this. Very well put!

sTraWbrRieZyUmMy
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I couldn’t focus there’s too much bulk 💪

andrewrobinson
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It’s not administrative tasks it’s driving Uber and Lyft

mikegargano
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I never thought about it like that. I always just thought about the fact that imma have to pay someone a livable wage and how the hell imma do that 🤣 but this makes sense. I have a daughter who is interested in helping so paying her may be the best way to

wasabispeaks
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gold... except I have almost no admin time anyway

MaccusFNS
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Looks like he spends 80% of his time in the gym. Great job.

jasondupuis
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But then it’s more administrative work when you 5x

caseypreston
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Can’t take you serious man the real ones will know why

letselevate