You Have To Be Brave

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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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Than you for being straight up allways

giantjoesuniga

I do not know why, but every reel Ive seen, I agree with you. This one is no difference.

ShahidulsPerspective

And that is why we're in a divine reality. Profound.

sleepp

Talks about courage but was aheadof his dad

meialua

Another way to say, “If you’re so smart, why are you poor?”

name-arb

Bravo. Solid character is more important than flashy personality.

freedomconcatenations

Man with one courage and one intellect

levelmatt

This may have changed my life, thank you ❤

brit

Idk if it’s courage or just persistence. But continuing to do something and getting better at it is way more important than being smart. Courage is just persistence in the face of (potential) adversity.

tevis

I’m going to keep documenting my journey, no matter what people say that’s courage

TonysSingleDadLife

This is true. There are also hundreds of brave and stupid “entrepreneurs” who failed for every one who succeeded.

johnmarston

We have yet to invent Artificial Bravery.

Brian_Chui

I think a lot of it has been how hopeless the world is than courage. Like when you can’t get people to work on their triggers but you’re always expected to do the work. This sort of “why tf bother” that’s not lack of courage. That’s meaninglessness and absolute just disconnect. Thus short circuit the reward circuit in our brain to the point that we are just burnt out and stop caring.

DaveE

This is so true, many people think that they're better than everyone because they "think" they're smarter, but they're missing something else about them. honor, courage, respect and truth, I don't care how smart you are I care how real you are

ThatBoyBent

Somebody with half the intelligence cannot even enter many businesses in healthcare fields, the law, finance or information technology. Maybe you don’t have to be the smartest, but you have to deliver quality services in your field.

stevengreidinger