This Simple Productivity System Made Me $100 Million

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.

[AlexHormozi]

Hope you get value from this framework ✊

[YasirKhanCoaching]

Alex …. bro, are you getting any sleep?

It’s the 50th upload this week, I’m all for it 😂

[Johansebastion]

These simple videos with the white board and zero distracting noises or jump cuts are fantastic! I’m here to learn, not crank my dopamine!

[OrnaSwanson]

the pace of these videos is insane, it's been a video per day for weeks and they're all gold

[HDTRADING]

When I feel like I can’t keep on going I think to my self “ I can’t disappoint Alex”

[garitboothe]

Takeaways:
- Schedule meeting days
- Jealously guard your time
- Disinvite people from unproductive meetings and don't be afraid to cancel meetings that don't need to happen

[HarshalAgarwal]

How the hell does he have the time to do soo much, evaluate and analyse it, break it down so clearly and deliver sooo much value every effin time !!?? 🤯 G.O.A.T

[gjorgjicvetkovski]

Alex's productivity summary: Say "NO" often and start working asap while eliminating all possible distractions during your workflow.

[ceowalid]

The level of value this man provides is unmatched.

[grasshopperweb]

"I know what I need to do to make more money, and I just need to do that."
Absolute gold I've only just begun to understand recently. Not only does it prevent nonsense meetings and nonsense projects in the name of humoring someone, it also makes me consume less learning material online once I've got my game plan in place.

[Happydale-dsyp]

I spent the first 7 years of my business as a manager but I'm a maker. I have 1 day a week in store now.
My productivity has skyrocketed in the last 6 months since realising I am a maker, I need time. I have two other 'makers' and two 'managers' in my main staff.

Only recently started using the managers to take over my responsibilities so I could make and builds my business relationships more.

With over 120 suppliers and 2000 customers a month as well as seven staff, I couldn't breath anymore.
Now I'm productive as fvck, happy as fvck and still do 12 to 15 hours a day quite happily but it's mostly maker time now.

❤🎉

[Aedonius]

For those that don't get it yet, Alex decided to do summer school. It's going to be a few weeks of value nonstop, for free. Sharpen your pencils.

[zenceLde]

Those are perfect Business Videos for me: Easy language, good examples, normal pacing & nearly no editing. Thank you!

[dicodec]

Realizing my manager side kills my maker side fml Biggest thing I learned was to make sure to have my day cleared when creating a song. I used to pause creating a new song to do lessons and meetings and then try to go back to creating a song. That would never go well.

[warchefseed]

This is just gold. As a head teacher I fought for this without knowing these terms. My goal was to put all the meeting on one day and let the team do their job uninterrupted for the rest of the week. Unfortunately, our VP thought that the moment she stops looking over someone's shoulder they stop working.

[diannad]

Ok, you just climbed into my head, and made sense of what I have been trying to organize forever. I am a small business owner, and I wear a lot of hats as a homeschooling mom, and business owner. You ROCK! This was so incredibly helpful. Maker/Manager is brilliant!

[seanferres]

this video is underrated af. as someone who's a CEO and also full time artist/ music producer, nothing makes me happier than waking up and seeing no meetings on my calendar ha

[MrCaptainSquibbles]

This is just Alex complaining about being interrupted and its awesome!😄

[game]

This video will help me on my career. And for that, I thank you Alex.

[williamvest]

Huge! Thank you for finally putting this in perspective for me. My number one issue has just been solved! I’’m a maker surrounded by Managers looking for the next big thing from me; I’ve become so frustrated that I’ve stalled. You’re the wind beneath my wings man. Thanks!