The Best Investment I've Ever Made...

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.

[michaelb]

Bros time is so valuable that he’s dropping wisdom while getting a haircut 😂😂

[CouchDog]

Everytime he does these barber videos he's not even getting a haircut, dudes either playing with his hair or combing it lol

[victormatusroos]

Barber looking at his hair like he forgot his scissors at home and don’t know how to tell his customer.

[SH-dljk]

Ah yes, the man that had nothing to sell ladies and gentlemen

[curiousfigure]

You might indeed have more money but you would. Not have "Enough". Because enough has nothing to do with how much you have

[randomguy]

I think he wants me to buy his seminar

[DoeshayLeads]

Yup. He is 💯 right on this. But most people don’t believe in themselves and their abilities earn without a boss or degree dictating their everyday life and overall value.

[timothyjackson]

Legend has it he's still getting his hair combed to this day.

[rsemi]

For him, absolutely. For 95% of the world, investing in the S&P will yield more wealth than all by a select few types of education

[Teamshmo]

A billion percent. When you have real education you can turn very little into a lot since you know exactly what to do

[ALopez]

The problem is not everyone is going to have the drive or work ethic it takes to reach that level. Almost no one makes it to multi millions. For the average Joe so and steady will win the race. If you’re here looking at his content. You might have what it takes to make it.

[YugeTechFan]

“Buy my seminar instead of investing in your future”

[samdrher]

I think it’s a balance but it seems like the majority of people I’ve spoken with regret not purchasing more investments sooner

[jayg]

Put all that cash for mentors and education on how to trade options. Way more than the 9% S&P he is using to calculate

[heyjasminek]

investing in those skills to earn. excellent reminder where to focus!

[spartanburgbusinessbroker]

No hair cut here, just a hot comb…and great business advice.

[dustinfrost]

Sounds like the seminars was adonation of your time wich is to valuable bc you can’t buy time 😊

[Fandadmenace]

Hair inspection $50 and a bucket full of wisdom.

[TonyGuy-jccp]

And you’re one of the million that that is true for most people spend money on mentoring learning courses etc. only to do nothing because it was all smoke and hype and be for forced to go back to the regular life a month later

[Nobodyx]

Easy to say for someone who sells courses