You Can Teach Anyone Anything

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.

[zidedeikery]

The biggest problem is there are so many jobs that require such a basic level of skill and not a single company wants to train for it. Entry-level is no longer Entry-level!
Then there are jobs like fire inspectors that you can't get anyone for because the only people that know it are the old guys that don't want to train.

Society is in a catch 22 because of this.

[syasyaishavingfun]

This is true, if you have money just hire better experienced people. Cheap business will be the training center before the best employees just jump ship to a better company.

[redactedredacted]

Could you please make a list of what these meta skills are?

[masterarthius]

Well, companies nowadays are running out of trained people with experience. They will have to start training people, otherwise they won't survive.

[nicwelch]

The sad reality is that there actually are people in this world that fundamentally cannot be taught to do anything of value.

[BarryDylan]

You can teach anyone anything*


*if they already have an IQ over 100

[Bombastico_romantico]

I have a question Mr Alex. How long did it take you to make your first million?

I hope you answer!🙏♥️

[edheldude]

Not everyone is trainable. You can have low IQ, severe developmental trauma, CPTSD, etc. etc.
The point holds though.

[onta.nicolae]

I'm pretty sure there are more than decent engineers with less than 10 years of experience