Do You Boo Boo

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.

[Ajay_Cheema]

“Blue Ocean” nonsense is to blame for this.
Everyone trying to avoid competition and find some untapped market.
No real market is untapped.
You gotta differentiate and compete.

[Jazad]

Sometimes people forget what they’re competing for. Do something the best you can. Run it hard and when you break something you found the weakest link. Build it better and run it again.

[foundationfirstfinancial]

It takes money to create demand, so if you don’t have money, you should definitely join the games and compete! Well said 👏🏻

[ThomasGHenry]

I've been armchair entrepreneuring this idea forever! You don't want to create a river, you want to dip your cup in one that's already flowing.

Thanks for the great content by the way, just bought both your books! Gonna get myself in the game any day now...

[raxn]

"Dude if it's competitive that means people are buying. I just see that as great - I just have to beat these people."
High testosterone thinking right there 😂

[religion-free]

creating demand where NONE 
existed:
The entire agricultural industry

[AlexiDrouin]

To thrive in competitive markets, rise to the occasion, bring your A game, and carve out a niche by beating them at their own game.

[adamfroman]

The competition brings more people to one concentrated area (where the saturation is) . It kinda makes a “shooting fish in a barrel’’ (customers are the fish) concept. Furniture stores and car dealerships love this concept..

[lucasrabaioliprestes]

EDITOR, the box with the frase is too low on yt shorts