The Best Response Ever

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.

[tommafer]

When he said “what did they do the next day?” I really thought he was going to say they made a video with the news anchor 😂😂😂

[nikrivers]

Agree with Lean into and make light of the haters hate only comes from before so if you respond unphased you will psychologically put the haters below you no matter how big they are

[TristanDurand]

I have no idea what Alex is talking about, who’s the major news outlet and who are the girls?

[normanlewis]

People that are successful dont seem to care about things that make the society which allowed them to prosper crumble. To regular folks out there, keep calling out degeneracy and sex work. Rich people are out of touch with reality.

[PapaSplat]

Guys he is not saying he would contribute to p*rn, he did not even give his opinion on it…he is simply saying a scenario where someone used “bad” publicity and turned it into record-high sales from all the viewership

[tsilias]

That takes knowing yourself and being comfortable in your own skin, which attracts people

[LifestyleApparelBrands]

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." -Epictetus

[mzr]

great advice, although the guy in the example was right

[ghosttheprogram]

In the end publicity is only bad or good depending on how you make it

[junaidijaz]

Making money isn’t the end goal. Just because society has devised ways of filtering all the assets to the top and making everyone jump through hurdles just to get anywhere close. Doesn’t mean theirs progress. We’re regressing in society. Women are millionaires only either by exploiting their sexuality or divorcing.

If you want to argue singers than that profession is overpaid anyways. The entire entertainment industry is over paid and that’s because it isn’t regulated for the betterment of society.

[moots]

Turn it into more free marketing, super smart

[אופקפרץ-חח]

Can somebody ffs explain what his he talking about

[Jackson_Zheng]

Bryan Johnson is a fucking killer on this

[alecreents]

Now I know where I stand on this issue, Alex H can't be trusted either

[thextribeworldwide]

Not a morally relevant case study to use in connection with ignoring negative people. Why choose an industry as f*cked as porn? Pun intended

[samuelnemetsky]

If Alex were a dinosaur he'd be a vague-asaurus.

[thegentlemansclubshow]

Always had respect for this guy. But arguing that being in the porn industry isn’t a bad thing is pretty weird…

[ArticulateArena]

k. well i'm not letting yt recommend you anymore.

[revelacol]

Why is he sticking up for this terrible industry

[DaveE]

The crazy thing too is that pattern he described as well is a form of emotional associational type propoganda I’ve seen a bunch on certain news stations.