How I picked my mentors...

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.

[DanDasilvaToday]

You’re one of the only people whose advice I take to heart and act upon these days. Thank you 🙏🏽

[DebtFreeDoctorJeffAnzalone]

This reminds me of Proverbs 15:22 which states, "Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed."

[jaykamhi]

I love your "triangle" theme-- 1. Integrity, Skill, Incentive, and in a previous video, 2. Skill, Character Traits, Belief. I find myself using this triangular logic on a regular basis to make better decisions. Appreciate you!

[MarketingHarry]

Selecting the right people in your life is everything. Gotta be careful who you can trust. Your future partially if not fully depends on it! Valuable video as usual. 🙏

[shariffjames]

My brother you are truly appreciated. You’re perspective, heart, authenticity, style of teaching, energy, experience and Consistency is valued! I really don’t need to listen to know one else. Keep the content coming brother! 🙏🏽💯💪🏾

[coachedvartsen]

Thanks for the content man! Just found you a week or 2 ago, and been watching as much as i can from you, and im learning new stuff in every video! 🙌🏻

[robchevez]

Alex, you rock. Just want to add a little perspective to the REALTOR Anology.
The market always dictates the price, if you lower the price to a low number the market will drive it up, (hence multiple offers). You seem like a data guy so I encourage you to research the direct correlation between the days on the market and offer price.
Summary: under 30 days gets the seller the highest net number. So surprisingly speed IS your friend. Think about it logically..if you see a property out in the market for 3 months the first thing you ask yourself is "what's wrong with it?" I can assure you that house will get a lower net number than the one that was priced aggressively. It has to do with human psychology.
Yes..I'm in the business but I
don't have a dog in the fight, and I LOVE your content. You rock! I just don't want people thinking that if they keep their property on the market for longer they are going to make more money. That just simply does not happen.

[jumpmanyang]

5:44 first integrity piece
6:14 second test: skill set

[albongo]

That last part hit home a lot man. God bless

[SpencerJan]

Hello from DFW 👋 I too agree that I don't want my mom doing my investments 😂 Great to see TX represent true entrepreneurship, keep going! We need more solid content on youtube like this

[CaseyBurnsInvesting]

Mentors are the shortcuts to great life decisions.

[konsimaurer]

Thank you for your high quality content brother!

[ThatFlyGuy]

Wow man. I thought you were another ty Lopez from the YouTube ads. But seeing the amount of information and substance you give PER video is insane . Thankyou!!!

[notokek]

8:19 dope glasses hehe
So pay mentors to have your best interest in heart and read three books, interview several experts and ask the same question to compare them

[LRkun]

This hits hard.

I can think of no more than 3 people who got my back irl.

[modelingsuccesssuccessfull]

Thanks and much love to you Alex. Truly a solid dude.

[cheerdiva]

Binge watching your videos today 📝 and I always need a pen and paper … another excellent business builder

[LeaPramstrahler]

Wow. I love this kind of content. This is a really deep subject. I have honestly never thought about it to this extent. This can change ones life.

[krisduboise]

I'm glad you made it bro... Hope all is well

[simoncasciaro]

As always, your content is gold. Period.