Why Don't Vampires Smoke?

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.

[jonathanlynch]

Not gonna lie… I was waiting for you to tie back to business

[deghui]

My portfolio after watching this video: 📈📈📈
(I invested in big tobacco)

[Tentaclestudio]

Vampires do smoke... When the get exposed to sunlight 😂

[euseraf]

alex went crazy after daily uploading for a week guys

[theearthlingconvention]

My investments in tobacco have nearly doubled upon hearing this information thank you Alex for all the gold nuggets you give us

[richfas]

For those seeking the business connection, vampires are masters at economies of scale. If you're smoking, you're not draining the blood of the innocent, and vice versa. Vampires solved this inefficiency by making smokers their preferred target market. By satisfying their bloodlust and nicotine cravings at the same time, they increased productivity at a lower cost. Simple but effective.

[HeyThatsInteresting]

“And it bothers me, and I think it should bother you too.” 😂

[ARat]

This is the content we’ve been waiting for

[riditnimdia]

As a vampire, I agree, vampires should start smoking 100 cigerettes a day for 100 days

[Feyfern]

After all the content showing us that Alex is a machine, it's refreshing to see that he gets weird random thoughts about which he feels very passionately, just like the rest of us. 😂

[Ahmededits]

Mine is 'how do zombies not shit' i mean they eat human meat all the time where does it go

[andrewmusgrave]

This is so weirdly appropriate. I was watching this emo vampire goth channel recently and they were talking all about the rule of 100s.

[sebastjankrek]

I absolutely agree! In my work in progress vampires smoke cigars all the time.

[TheHomiePopo]

Maybe they dont get a kick out of it because there bodily resistance are too high

[princepersona]

I guess "Interview with a Vampire" isn't on his watch list.

[JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

Great now i can't stop thinking about why vampires don't smoke thanks Alex

[kamneelamin]

Lucky gears often have wholes cause that thought is full of them. Hope the nose surgeries go well.

[gregmitchell]

Hilarious! A bit of fun in business... 👍

[ianidas]

Doesn’t lose sleep over multi million dollar business projects…. Loses sleep over smoking habits of teenage vampires

[kbtken]

Some do but most live so long they eventually quit