How to Master Any Skill faster

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.

[martinlutherkingjr.]

Quality also matters, especially if it’s a cognitively demanding skill. Otherwise you won’t absorb the material very well.

[brandonstout]

Genius every time. I'm sold on YOU.

You dominate.

You help me categorize in my mind what is important for my business and then focus on actually doing those things. Thanks for your energy.

[domainmusicandgaming]

Kobe did 4 but I understand what you are saying

[Stephanie.fahqueen]

I would like your perspective of what to do for someone not young with lots of basic experience but not too much more.

[onweze]

Actually the real answer is feedback.
If you start accounting or any other practice and you never get feedback on why you are wrong and what to improve you'll keep being shit even if you do it 10000 times.
So shorten the time it takes by getting feedback

[YomOm]

bro. what is the quality of these shorts? it’s overdone and cheap

[denisfoguenne]

There is so much animations on those stupid reels, I can't even understand what he is trying to say man

[eMillion]

That means I'm GODLIKE at playing video games 😂 how do I make money from it

[samuelsheldrake]

This guy genuinely thinks he’s the god of business 😅😅😅