Niklos Alexander
Corporate M&A/PE practitioner; posts on diligence, pre-close planning, post-merger integration, and strategic buyer considerations.
Buy a Business, Earn $700K Annually Over 5 Years
If you buy the right business, the pay can be amazing: $250k/year in salary + $2.25M payout when you sell it later Over a 5-year hold, that’s $700k/year income. That’s why so many wealthy people buy businesses instead of trying to create unicorns. The best part is that anyone can buy a business and do this for themselves.
Success Wins When You Choose It Over Comfort
I’ve studied over a dozen high performers. The only difference between them and everyone else: they wanted success more than they wanted comfort. If you choose comfort over 2-3 extra hours of work each night, when you have the time right...
Start with a Job, Then Bet on Yourself
As the kid who knew he wanted to work for himself one day (I got fired from every job I had in high school), I still: 1. Went to college 2. Got a full time job 3. Then started my own companies I’ll always...
Delta Continues Cutting Back Its Route Network
Delta is also going to continue cutting down the number of routes they have available, btw.
Calm Leadership: The Most Underrated Business Skill
One of the most underrated skills in business: making people feel calmer after talking to you. In chaos, uncertainty, negotiations, layoffs, businesss deals, relationships, etc.. people need emotional stability (which in my opinion is the #1 leadership trait). The rest of this...
Lead Partnerships with the Same Grit You Expect
When I become a joint-venture business partner, it’s important that I show my partners the same grit, tenacity, and high standards I try to bring to everything I build for myself.
More Efficiency, Less Free Time: The Paradox of Work
As I reflect on my workaholism, I often think about the “free-time paradox.” Despite technology made to increase efficiency and productivity, people feel more busy and stressed than ever. We fill saved time with more work. Even crazier: people with more money...
AI Creators Achieve at Least 50% Real Followers.
It’s insane. Based on what I see for 🌶️ AI content creators, I’d say the followers are at least 50% real which is good enough. For something that’s probably low effort/tokens + digital product.
Mentor's Belief Fuels My Limitless Career Possibilities
Pops said I can go to zero today and still have an entire career doing anything else, so go for it. Blessed to have someone I look up to believe in the dream and I don’t take that for granted.
Four Loko Poised for $400M Sale Amid RTD Boom
Four Loko may be sold for $400M. Phusion Brands is exploring a sale of the Four Loko brand as the ready-to-drink category significantly outperforms beer, wine, and spirits by almost 15%. Four Loko launched in 2005 and took college campuses by storm...
Building a CIO Office to Impact 1,200 Families
My favorite part of my job is working with C-suite officers. Right now, I’m helping build the Office of a CIO ahead of a corporate split. Day 1, she inherits a brand-new company. We meet daily and work through org design, capital allocation,...