Stop Complaining

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.

[mojojojo]

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger

[Frank]

Complaining has its place. Problems have to be addressed before they can be solved and sometimes ppl need to blow off steam before they’re ready to make a change. It’s not always counter to productivity

If you don’t allow space for ppl to grouse, their grievances could be bottled and they could end up blowing up later. Basically, it could become a bigger issue down the line

It’s like that old saying though- everything in moderation

[Space_Princess]

I think complaining is okay to some degree. As long as you continue to move forward and make progress after you have expressed what you need to inorder to help you process what you need to come to a productive conclusion

[Abood]

I disagree. This encourages bad behavior from the stronger side. For example if a boss is screaming at his employees they have the right to complain and he/she has to own their mistakes

[Delta]

Are you talking about actual complaints or people just whining?

[MarissaCarterArtist]

Dialog is best motorized sir. Most complainers just want to be heard so stop complaining to your friends...

[evanfreshour]

I would join school but I have nothing to go off of online wise I want to build my reputation online before

[Raspil]

He is absolutely correct on all points

[Noop]

How can I get my employees to Understand that complaining is getting them nowhere and instead is just stealing their energy?

[etiennechamps]

Poor french people





PS : I'm indeed french

[MasterGhostf]

I think it depends on the complaints. If your complaining that the night shift didn't clean up or put away stuff. Sure. But, that should be an issue that gets resolved. Are they complaining about a process or method? Sure they should move on but take their complaints and criticisms. We don't get better by ignoring criticism.

[stupiocity]

If that be true then why byjus struggle today and lost more than 20 billion dollars within a year? We should consider listening to complaints because sometimes we ourselves makes mistakes and other people only sees it. May not be good advice for long term business

[rrasd]

The language used hindi dubbed IT's great language in all indian

[benmuniz]

Excellent advice but his lips are a bit too visible through the beard. Looks a bit off 😅