I almost failed my 1st semester of college

Want to SCALE your business? Go here: acquisition.com
Want to START a business? Go here: skool.com/games
If you’re new to my channel, my name is Alex Hormozi. I’m the founder and managing partner of Acquisition.com. It’s a family office, which is just a formal way of saying we invest our own money into companies. Our 10 portfolio companies bring in over $200,000,000+ per year. Our ownership stake varies between 20% and 100% of them. Given this is a YT channel, and anyone can claim anything, I’ll give you some stuff you can google to verify below.
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)
31 yrs old: Started our family office Acquisition.com. We invest and scale companies using the $42M in distributions we had taken + the cash from the $46.2M exit.
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.
34 yrs old: I became co-owner of Skool.com to help the many people who want to start a business online do so.
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.

[@parma2414]

I had the same thing, always got straight As without doing shit. I got to uni and I passed but didn’t do well, took me two years to learn how to work hard. Carried the momentum and built a business in third year while getting As again.

[@mitchellavard]

What was the business you built?

[@jacobday3826]

That's incredible! Was the business related to your study?

[@parma2414]

@@mitchellavard just an FBA brand, nothing fancy or trendy

[@parma2414]

@@jacobday3826 not at all, I studied mathematics

[@Dontsunscribe]

I just started dual credit classes fulltime and I missed 4 assignments by accident by being so blinded, slow, and lazy. I'm hopeful to see that I can make it up.

[@shumatsuopost]

What a great mindset to have. Focusing on your goals purely will eventually lead you to success! Love this!

[@joshua_daniels]

That's so cool! Thank you for this perspective!

[@maddienikki5887]

Iranian immigrant too, I just sent it to my son. Hopefully it inspires him!

[@masterno8576]

God protect you both

[@thatboysteez]

I’m in the same position currently, always had this mindset my spring semester will be my hardest working one so far.

[@nokubongabatyi9601]

I used to Ace exams without studying. I got to uni haibo struggling after putting so much effort in preparation😢

[@hunterhills3047]

Yeah 9-9 don’t cut it for me haha I usually start around 8:45 and get done at 11:30

[@poeticindulgence]

Congrats

[@ThembaMkandla]

Woaw, how do you do that!

[@akhilhooda7226]

That line. 🤯🤯

[@LawyerUp13]

I barely graduated highschool but got all As and Bs in college somehow.

[@AbdullahKhalidKhan]

Gigachad motivates

[@bannerwinford]

which podcast is this?

[@tims9434]

The joys of living in America, I think it forces people to work personally. Working too hard isn't a good thing. Imagine what you missed out on whilst studying without a social life etc. Having money is obviously your biggest motivator, this a dynamic you have that your father didn't have..... This I'd what is so bad about America....looking for world domination

[@user-nj1zu2nf1x]

Many people strongly believe it's our best feature lol

[@calmexit6483]

we're a nation of conquerors

[@Elvisism]

​@@calmexit6483shady ngl aha

[@mariyamshamshidova7513]

Same happened with me

[@aliabdelmohsen8068]

Alex is your podcast only available for us users? I've trying to listen to it and it just won't start and i have tried every platform

[@aliabdelmohsen8068]

This happens only with the game podcast everything else seem to work just fine

[@aliabdelmohsen8068]

@SchizSchool bro i live on the other side of the world what does the deep state have to do with me and how could they control what content i consume wtf!

[@Arman-sr2gu]

Eat carbs for dinner... what a bad advice

[@MrUcruise]

✅

[@dustinkrejci6142]

Excuse me. I want to say thank you for dropping 🪙 gold bars off at my front door 🚪.