I Wanted To Give Up

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

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[ballinspalding]

"Don't judge it" is so important.

[JustinP]

Turn pain into fuel to drive you towards your goals.

[BusinessQuotes]

“Pain can either break you or fuel you. Choose to let it drive you forward.”

[EliteAutomation]

I feel that. For me it's the pain of not doing what I know I can do and achieve. And giving up due to repetitive bad luck and potentially not learning quick enough

[StayFreeStreams]

This year has been crazy. I went from 1k to 30k to 0 and now back up at 50k USD. Keep grinding brothers

[guessitrights]

$1k to some people is so little. Yet I'm sitting here hoping Bank Of America doesn't close my account for having less than $100 for the past 7 months (i went all in on a business model)

[zercoolninja]

I need more successful people in my life ❤

[creepcraddle]

life is f*cking hard man it's non stop pain

[Raeworld]

If I have a thousand dollar right now, it will so much give me hope

[ms.jesuewalker]

Don’t judge my fuel just use it! I’ve been kicking butt in this AI work and study. I didn’t know if I should stop for a while and get something stable but this just fueled my fuel

[杨嘉娟]

No one easy to success, must be pass the failure, dark time

[zero]

Sounds exactly like the plot of kung fu panda

[jonyD]

Why is that even after some years, I still don't believe this guy.

[DaveE]

What if your past that a just realize people suck.

[jjbast]

Another guy speaking alone and pretending to be interviewed

[Lucasanswers]

How do you quit with 1k 😂? Rich parents to fall back on?

[jordonschultz]

You still had $1000?? Must be nice lol