Don't Do What I Do

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.

[TheFreedomProvider]

"if you don't have much to talk about you're not doing much! That's the core problem.". Hit my soul today. Get back to work

[collinrutherford]

By actively working on your goals and documenting your progress, you create a richer narrative that can engage your audience and demonstrate your growth over time.

[WEALLSHINE]

Thanks for the reminder! Time to get to work. 🙃

[Marking_The_Way]

Dammm...many of us weren't expecting this dose of reality on a Monday 😅😂

[stellarhexus]

How do you make a sandwitch shop? Low subs.

[georgesmith]

serious entrerpreneurs do not make seminars and youtube videos all day

[VerseBlast]

I just realized I've been making videos about what I am about to do instead of the things I have done....Got to actually do more instead of talk mroe.

[glennwithns]

All the truth that Alex speaks is very much appreciated. As a small business owner working on scaling it's nice to hear contrasting thoughts to help stay focused.
One area that's been spoken about is getting more and more content out there, but what hasn't been mentioned is how many people are ideal to help scale to that amount of content. Has this been addressed?

[anjelfliye]

There are alot of "GURUS" ON YOU TUBE now. Alex included in that company. I don't see Alex in any business publications... like EVER

[TheDaveDryden]

Skill acquisition and experience first. This is why college degrees fail as you get no work experience and a small handful of skills that don't make money lol

[davidburden]

how is your walk with the lord? $1m =0 upstairs

[giuseppebiundo]

Any time someone says they make better burgers than McDonalds.

[JamarAnderson-ugwe]

This contradicts previous content you made where you said to figure out what successful people did and do those things