Recruiting and Hiring Tips - How to Hire The Best Employees

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.

[Ivan-fsnz]

Alex is the real deal I can't stop watching his channel 🥂

[LennefalkStudios]

Love the candid insights and experience sharing here, addicted to your videos!

[maripetcabauatan]

so- i watched maybe 3 if mos your recent videos and now digging in to the "old ones" (one yr ago it says here) but oh... i could say your content quality improved a lot (10X) VS a yr ago! thank you for putting out very specific and formula based content!

[claudine]

Whew! Well I’m glad I watched this because I read the company Glassdoor reviews looking for some insight to see if you walk your talk... and this video does a good job to explain some of the less than favorable reviews. Thanks for sharing and for your authenticity.

[jonathancalvooo]

Exactly grant talks about this Client acquisition over customer satisfaction. If you aren’t acquiring new customers there are no customers to satisfy. You got it absolutely right sales, marketing and product first and operations as supporting role.

[eric_martindale]

You are so damn right about so many people having no idea what hard work is. I have started to implement daily performance metrics for every single person in my business that I can. It is shocking how many people are put out by the fact that they actually half to help move the ball forward.

[Newinceptions]

Digging your content, Alex. I love how real and down-to-earth you are. Tired of all the rose-colored experts out there. There's real issues (like this) which never get addressed. Thanks!

[knightofbrokenglass]

Love you so much bro - I stopped telling people these things a long time ago - you're the best

[jonathansong]

Thanks for the amazing wisdom. Really really appreciate your input to this world.

[mattb]

His authentic nature is apart of his sales process. He’s selling himself to all of us by creating these videos and sharing his thoughts. His clothes, beard and “non-polished” jacked look is apart of him selling himself.. good job and well done. Love the videos!

[tanuki]

Really appreciate this content! Super eye opening

[maximus]

Thanks for what you are doing!!! Appreciate!

[MannyTheBootmaker]

This is huge! Thanks for posting this!

[ris]

Thanks for doing this video, felt really real. Sometimes the information is more valuable if there’s not as much polish and it’s from the heart. I’ve had stuff like the issue with the HR director happen to me too.

[Prakhart]

Love that you are sharing it. Thank you🙇

[CJCross]

Thanks for this. I’m working on applying some of these concepts to a bbq catering business.

[trapped-byyour-mortgage]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is so valuable to me.

[LennyYT]

YES 💪 to more fly on the wall content🚀🚀🚀

[zacharyvalenter]

This is the kind of thing feel-good gurus never talk about - I can tell you’re still angry! Haha. I would be furious, too.

[DanielEgan]

Damn. Major respect for the clarity of Alex’s thought…