No BS Advice to Get Rich Like the 1%

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.

[King_Murkey]

I feel blessed to live in a time where videos like these are so easily accessible and free

[usmanmjaved]

Alex has been getting better and better at condensing so much wisdom into every second of his content. It’s very impressive. Truly grateful for his public facing work.

[scottmoseley]

I needed these lessons 25 years ago! Alex is soo right. Nothing is a given, Life is short. Get on it. double time.

[rocklamanna]

As a family of workaholics, now that I'm 70 and listening to you, Focus was a real gem to remind me of growing wealth in a different way. Thanks kid.

[SlickyNom]

I never listen to YouTube, or watch videos. My friend recommended me this on a whim. There's about 200 nuggets in here for me. Life changing. I'm going to learn and apply. Thank you!

[carloslao]

Thanks, I have my own business, and since Jan 15th, I have been working 8-16 hours/day, every day, and had started to drift, this vid has validated that i'm on the right track. You really know how to present obvious ideas in a way that sticks, thanks.

[marklauts]

I am distracting myself with this video

[NsnshdDgdhdhd]

“Nothing is inherently bad to begin with anyways
We are just always inadequate”

Wow, that shook some feathers

[bdg]

i love how that there is a man (very few men) out there in this world, who decides to sit down for an hour or 2 in front of a camera. (let me add, not just any man.. a billionaire) and give out free advice on, how to become a better person in every aspect of life.
the unknowing weather itd pay off or not is even more "wow" facto!
mad respect to this guys and what he does for this world 🙏🏽

[realwillwilder]

Alex. As a dedicated viewer for over 3 years... this was my favorite video you have made. After two duds, you went back to what really moves the needle. It's not even what you say in these, it's the energy, the work, the standards that speaks volumes. I might not remember a single thing from this, but I'm walking away saying "Wow. That is what incredible looks like". Off to more work. bless.

[YouTubeOrganicMarketing]

This guy doesn't get tired of innovating with his content. What a beast. Keep it up, Alex!

[Eduvige-qj]

I hit $113k today. Thank you for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last months. Started last month 2024. Financial education is indeed required for more than 70% of the society in the country as very few are literate on the subject.

[LaynoProd]

thank you for this Alex 🙏🏽📝💎 im 27 and still got a lot to improve on, your videos help a lot practically

[eng.ahmedamir]

I love this so much because it lifts the burden of thinking that I should always enjoy what I'm doing and allows me to just work.

[yagndabhi]

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[BrandonDeon]

I love videos like this that make me question my current paradigm

[myth]

I watch videos every day and this is probably one of the best videos I've seen in months thanks for putting it out there makes me want to keep going

[LaynoProd]

very profound perspective at 32:55, a good life isnt an easy life, its a life that makes you into a good person, and that is a hard life

[Sasha-eojz]

“You do keep busy while you’re awake…”. Love this quote. Most of us can work harder than we think we can. I learned that in medical training. Just depends on how much we want to apply ourselves and how badly we want the end goal.

[alimortada]

You didn't waste a single second in this video. Absolute gold.