Alejandro Mendieta Blanco, also known as Alex, a successful entrepreneur, and philanthropist, has a very extraordinary story behind his success path. This article will give you an insight into life, his beginning, struggling days, and finally achieving success. These stories come from the mouths of those who have been closest to him in the past few years, his old assistant, well-known business personalities, celebrities, and others.
How It All Began
Alex Mendieta was born in Columbia to an upper-middle-class family; however, his family’s happiness was short-lived after his father, a famous Columbian doctor, lost all his fortune when Alex was just nine years old. In many of his interviews, Alex has spoken about this and has regarded this incident as the best thing to have happened to him. However, he had also added that even though he was just nine years old when all of that happened, it was still traumatising for him. He has often said that experiencing not having money can be quite frustrating and humiliating. Moreover, he always saw his parents bickering and fighting because of this, which added more to his trauma. At this point, young Alex promised himself that he would become rich, no matter what happens. As he grew up, the promise and the pain of not having money stuck with him.
At the age of 15, Alex did the unthinkable and dropped out of school and still managed to get his high school diploma through some sort of loophole. He finished school three years before his batch mates.
Heading To Australia
Alex moved to Melbourne in Australia at the age of sixteen only. Having negligible English speaking skills, he was determined to live his promise. He somehow managed to convince his dad to pay for his one-way flight ticket, and that he would figure out the rest once he reaches there.
That period of life, which he calls one of the toughest phases of his life, was spent doing odd jobs such as cleaning, washing dishes, and whatever work he used to get. No matter how tough it might have been for him, Alex has often said in his interviews that he won’t change a single thing about that period and that it has shaped him to be as tough as nails. The fact that he was just a young teenager was indeed the best time to experience such a thing.
Paving Way To Success In Business
If you think success paved easily into his life, then you are mistaken. Before achieving success, Alex had seven failed business ventures added to his name. He states that because he has an overly optimistic approach and attitude towards life, these blows that came to him on his repeated failures were not that difficult to live with.
As his business grew, one after another, he became more and more successful, and his companies’ turnover has exceeded $ 200,000,000 every year since 2017. When asked about his plans for 2021, the ambitious Alex replied, saying that he is looking to the year with new vaccines for Covid-19 being rolled out. He expects to hit a turnover of $500,000,000 for the first time with these vaccines.
Charitable Nature
Going through hard times himself, Alex didn’t let success and money get to his head. He had been privately carrying out his charitable work for a long time, and only recently did it come to the public surface. He owns two charities himself since 2016, which is self-funded. The first charity is “Give a Child a Bike,” where 500 bikes are donated every year to disadvantaged children in Vietnam so that they don’t have to walk for hours to go to school. His second charity is “Alex Mendieta Scholarship,” which helped several international students complete their final university studies every year.
Conclusion
A tough childhood full of financial crisis and struggles indeed shaped up Alex to be a strong and determined human. His early struggling days and constant failure didn’t pull him down; instead, he pushed him further to achieve it today. With a heart for charity and compassion, he indeed is a role model for many!
