He Took It To Heart

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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[payamriazi]

The work we do works on us more than we work on it

Brilliant 🤝🏼

[TechMetalPenguin]

Instead of tipping, the guy gave him a tip.

Jokes aside, I believe this is extremely valuable.

[matthewcarpenter]

He didn’t take it to heart. He took it to social media.

[johannesdolch]

I am exactly like that. Treat me well and you get 20% Tip. Treat me poorly and you get whatever change i don't want in my pocket. All up to you. If you hate your job, do something else.

[magicmegan]

I did an experiment when I found out that some customers only tip during the holidays. That first year I worked for the cleaning company, I watched my coworkers get their christmas tips because they had established rapport already, and I was new so I didn’t get many Christmas tips. I decided that for the next entire year, I would work hard at my customer service, built rapport, “butter up” my customers. the next Christmas season I rolled in like a thousand dollars in extra tips, more than anyone else!!

[darkskinwhite]

he didn't become passionate about his work, he became passionate about himself.

[Nicole_corona]

What actually happened was that he saw his job in a different totally different way and put a positive environment and he changed his way of acting and thinking and that’s called good Energy

[BusinessQuotes]

“When you change your attitude, the world changes its response. Same job, new results.”

[Wonderland]

It’s funny because you could get mad at not getting a cash tip, instead he gave you a life tip, in some sense

[daneking]

When you decide to take the tip and not the insult

[ElMountainMan]

If you're working in the service industry where your income comes from tips.

Treat every customer the same, whether they tip or not. Smile while you speak, it makes a difference.
you'd be surprised how many people are watching you, from the other side of the room.

[MrAnderson]

In medical sales your reputation is literally everything. When I was let go after being 150% of plan all my colleagues had reached out and other opportunities arose

[KevinMasonJr]

Needed to hear this perspective today!!! Much appreciated ✊🏽✊🏽💯

[maanka]

proof that honest criticism is good for us.

[Jose_Business_insights]

Colossians 3:23 (Work Ethic)

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”

[TheEnglishSkool]

Tip: Do better!
Tip: Smile more!
Tip: Praise people sincerely.
Tip: Be a good listener.
Tip: Give honest and sincere appreciation.
Tip: Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
Tip: Be genuinely interested in other people.

😜

[GasparDiaziamgaspardiaz]

That’s a better tip than some money he could have gotten

[blazingcurent]

I don't believe for 1 second that he got bigger tips

[petemuganeafrica]

A good attitude is the catch here, difficult sometimes but it’s essential

[adamgibson]

Thanks for clarifying the joke for all the McD's customers