My Workout Mixtape From 2005

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.

[Strottenburg]

He asks someone a question so that he can set himself up for a story. 😂😂

[Crxndxn]

I think he’s realizing that every question Alex is asking is setting Alex up to tell a story about himself lol

[eft]

This guy got the ‘tism but in the most successful and socially acceptable way

[BubbaPmp]

This isnt the duo we expected, but its the one we needed

[louannebvb]

That is wholesome as heck. Not the fact that you don't listen to music outside the gym, that is bizarre. But listening to your boy's CD years later is freaking fantastic

[Keshavyadav]

Ok so the new book is $100M Money Models

[vybzone]

dont u hate when a mf asks a question and u can tell its only cause they wanna say their answer😭

[liamslore]

These guys have great chemistry can’t lie 😂💪

[proo]

That was like the exact core of my workout playlist. Great taste Cbum

[Baker-boy]

Can’t wait for the new book to come out! Thanks for the sneak peek

[keithrandolph]

Awesome seeing sneak peak in the back, but way more pumped for Alex that he met C Bum!

[thegreatvalue]

A ZUNE!!!! He just unlocked a memory for me lmaooo

[DJWadeBanner]

I’m gonna send you some mixes. You’ll always have options!

[ericguerra]

2005 Awesomeee man. sometimes there are sertain songs that cause this addiction and you just don't ever move on.

[ronrozaay]

Alex dropping some Easter eggs in this video 🔥🔥

[Grahba]

“The only time I listen to music is when I train” I can relate these days

[nonbinaryqtip]

It’s riddim/briddim for me especially when I go for my mile and a half warm up run I can sync my running still with the beat and just day dream while running it’s so nice😂

[evanrees]

Alex you're teasing us with that book and you know it!

[tapwaterman]

Same music not the same needle and dedication.. Love❤

[M_Ray]

I love that Chris listens to tge exact same music as me 😊