It Happens Slower Than You Expect

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.

[Kronus]

I agree, no matter how intense you promise to be, without that consistency you can never reach that goal in mind.

[ayoubhaouzi]

"The goal is me, and then the external goals just occur" i am impressed by how beautifully and at the same time directly hormozi speaks

[Someone-ctck]

This stuff is deep, probably every entrepreneur has suffered from lack of this wisdom. It is good to just take it without figuring out yuourself the hard way. Thanks Alex, but I have figured this out the hard way, but it is nice that you have confirmed my perspective.

[nickflesch]

Incredible wisdom. Thank you. Let go of expectation and embrace the idea that it may never work out, but go for it anyway.

[earealestate]

Your presentation style makes even the most complex topics easy to understand. Looking forward to more in-depth discussions like this.

[_le]

I’m so grateful for Alex. I quite honestly, don’t know where I would be without him. The amount of information this man disseminates into the world is something words can’t even explain.

Every day I am smarter because he exist. Thank you so much.

[michaelt]

Even if you never see this Alex. You're going to hear from MichaelT. When this man speaks, Mountains move. This man father's the world with his business knowledge and influence. Some times/ things we just need the Validation on hearing to know when we are on the right track. Glad to hear that the struggle is real for all Entrepreneurs. Especially the big ones. I grew up with the 9-5 and tell the family and friends about business world.. Its like I'm talking to a whole different world.

Keep good people who know what they are talking about around

[jamesf]

Agree. Fall in love with the process. The results will come.

[DailyGrindHub]

1, 000%. I’m so guilty of this. Sometimes I feel like I’ve been eating good, getting sleep, working out consistently, being super productive at work, & completely focused for like 2 weeks, how come my life has not completely changed yet?! I just had to realize and accept that I need to be the best version of myself consistently for a long time to see results.

[Weareallimperfect]

Crazy the depth of analysis on interesting kind of abstract but relevant subjects

[jimmy_westside]

the social network movie soundtrack in the background is :chefskiss:

[asandemkhasibe]

Social network a movie everyone should watch

[ohshukhrat]

True, it took me years of unrecognizable focus

[caspert]

Nah thank you for that perspective on it. Really connected with that

[div]

James Clear calls this the “Valley of Disappointment”

[anılaslan]

The music is a little bit confusing. I dont know what i should feel.

[TheMatthewSherwood]

on the flip side, you can get fitter, improve your mood and relationships in a few weeks

[adambriggs]

My time line is my life line. I wanna be a winner before the last breath.

[VincesInHocSigno]

When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak your name in years to come? Will you be known as the philosopher? The billionaire? The tyrant...? Or will you be the man who gave the businessman back his true self? There was once a dream that was entrepreneurship. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish...for it was so fragile.

[hurricanebell]

These two guys sitting down together is gold