Why I Employ Leverage In As Many Ways As Possible

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.

[brazatolz]

Yes, more videos on leverage please! Thank you.

[MarketingHarry]

The goal is to learn how to leverage! 💯 Appreciate the valuable advice, Alex👌

[coachkenny]

Leverage is the game changer in anything.

[johnathanvale]

You can leverage with other people, or other people's money.

[tamim]

Hey Alex 👋
I'm a Nigerian Prince offering u the chance of a lifetime! Just kidding 😂

I'm a 17 year old kid who lives in the UK and I absolutely LOVE UR STUFF 😍

Just wanted to get some advice. I want to learn sales and marketing and get to grips with the fundamentals of a business. You recommended in a YouTube video for kids like me to do apprenticeships.

What apprenticeships should I be looking out for 👀 for the best chance of learning sales and marketing

[jeremyl]

Talk to me, Alex! Talk to me, talk to me!

[eilliwwasniahc]

This is one of the few times I have heard the word "leverage" used correctly. So many posers simply use it as an impressive way if saying "use".

[lionofallah]

The literal definition of alpha. Wealthy, intelligent, humble, swole as fuck, What a bro 😎

[digimuz]

I can't remember the name of the book, but Leverage is HUGE

[_TheBlackSwan_]

Teach us different financial leverage strategies ! S’il vous plait

[BornPunch]

how much leverage do you get from abusing gear at a young age?

[josuehb]

Cute & smarty words but thats called exploitation and wage theft which is legal but shouldn’t be just like slavery

[hotsauceislethal]

Three ways good men go broke:
Ladies, liquor and leverage.

[bobfet]

For a guy that tells everyone to stop regurgitating content/things that others have said already.... Alex​ sure does like regurgitating Naval Ravikant 😅😂