I Used to Eat 6,000 Calories a Day

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.

[ericlyons]

Chris: “you still eat like that!?”

Alex: “no 👀”

[BobbyMasteria]

lets make a fast food restaurant chain just for bodybuilders

[aminiraji]

You did start this kind of content as you told on podcast. COOL!

[IAmVenix]

he’s probably on even more gear than CBum somehow 😂

[Flamma-theSyrian]

I feel like eating big is a must for anyone who wants to be strong, if you’re super strong, there must have been a time when you were eating like crazy. I have never seen someone with great strength that was always on maintenance calories or below it.

[umarsyedexp]

Chris eats so clean second something dirty goes down the hatch his body knows instantly and starts rejecting it. Next level collab.

[thecraftyproject]

I had a lifestyle change, when i was 140lbs 6’4” and depressed and malnourished. Just woke up driven and started consuming 5-6k calories a day everyday for a year and a half along with the gym every single day. Its what got me from 140-215lbs that quick. Granted i had 15-20lbs too much bodyfat from gaining so quick so i began cutting and maintaining.

[peterfitzwell]

I went from 142lbs to 187lbs in 4 months. 7, 000cals/day. Used to stop my workouts to go eat and come back. I still eat roughly 3, 000cals/day maintenance.

[gian-luca]

Alex is just so charismatic that you don't even realize he is talking to cbum.

[ViciousViceTV]

Alex if i ever you meet me i just wanna say, you found a real one thats amazing im so happy for yall. Your journey is indeed a legendary one

[Madchris]

That's nuts 😂. But I feel like eating an insane amount of calories on bulk is a phase we all go through

[WealthforthePercent]

Loading trucks at UPS and lifting in college I had to eat 5-6k calories the same, just not wasting the money on eating out at Chipotle since you can make those burrito bowls for way less at home. Insane the amount of calories 😂

[Cyrilvictor]

ALEX, WHEN IS THIS VIDEO COMING OUT? ‼️🚨🚨🔔

[jt]

When i was running half a marathon each day, everyday, id start with a lb of bacon, 8 eggs, maybe a glass of milk. Lunch was a baconator meal plus a large frosty. Dinner was frozen peperoni pizza.
Miss those days

[Bling]

Chris is like thanks man for rubbing it in my face 😂

[haroldassmailis]

He is still eating enough. Hiss reaction to the question saying, yes I still eat a lot. 😅

[highbrowking]

Remember kids you can make up anything you want on the internet!

[someguy]

Used to put food away when i was doing highscool football and off season shotput lifting. Would eat a rotissarae chicken every lunch during those summers

[chadmcfly]

Asked a question just to talk himself again lol

[JeffHardware-st]

Thank you for everything u are a person. Thank you