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Alan Frei's Newsletter 09/25: Olympic update, new productivity guide & 20 survival tips

I didn’t send a newsletter for a year. Why? I don’t want to spam you. I prefer to send you an email only when I have collected enough interesting things to share. Because I truly value your attention. Pinky promise: no spam, no ChatGPT. Will send a newsletter max. every 1-2 months. Enough small talk.

Table of Content:

• 1. Update Alan Frei Company (AFC) & Olympics (if you don’t care, skip directly to No. 2.

• 2. Cool videos / podcasts / books

• 3. Tools & Hacks

• 4. Sponsors & Collabs

1. Update Alan Frei Company (AFC) & Olympics 🚀:

The community is now over 50k strong. 14k newsletter subscribers. Crazy 🤯 

Books: I launched 3 books (in German & English). Get them here for free or pay what you want:

• New Productivity Guide: 
  https://alanfrei.gumroad.com/l/productivity-guide-en. I’ve put together all my favorite work and productivity hacks.

• Startup Guide. Many of you have it already: https://alanfrei.gumroad.com/l/startup-guide-en 

• I also recently launched my Health Guide: https://alanfrei.gumroad.com/l/health-guide-en. In this book you’ll find everything I have learned while losing over 25kg and becoming fitter than ever. I am not a health expert. These are just the things that worked for me.

Events: My happiness is seeing many of you at our events. I believe we create meaningful events and people seem to enjoy them.

• A3F CON 2026. Our biggest event ever. May 6, 2026, at Kaufleuten, we are doing the largest Tech-Conference in Zurich. It will be a full day event. Who is coming? Andy Yen Founder of Proton, Lea-Sophie Cramer (240k on LinkedIn. Founder of Amorelie & Investor) and many more. Working on getting a really big international Founder to Zurich. Get early bird tickets here: https://eventfrog.ch/A3FCON2026

• Startup Breakfast #11. Entrepreneurs and people with ideas to exchange know how and ideas: alanfrei.com/events  

• A3F Vertical: Mobility. This will be a fun one. This event is about the future of mobility and logistics: alanfrei.com/events 

• Craziest Dinner Party in Zurich: Supper Club #21. November 15, 2025. Tickets available soon here: alanfrei.com/events 

Olympics

• We have a new trailer. The plan is to stream it on Netflix :)
  https://vimeo.com/summitvisionmedia/longshot
  Please don’t share it. It’s not yet public. For your eyes only.

• Ahhh almost forgot. We won the Asian Wintergames :) See the last points of the game here: https://youtu.be/orAp_1ojPoA?si=F2qJ9wThR9lxO0S7

Shareholders

• Shareholder News: We now have 500+ shareholders. Also, an exclusive shop only for investors. So if you want to become an investor: alanfrei.com/investor or access the shop: alanfrei.com/shop

• All shareholders will get a separate newsletter.

2. Cool videos / podcasts / books  👀

The community is now over 50k strong. 14k+ newsletter subscribers. Crazy 🤯 

Videos

• Netflix is boring at the moment. But man, Blue Eye Samurai is fantastic: https://www.netflix.com/title/81144203

• The genius design of Soda Cans: https://youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw?si=9OS7JTt8n5y9m4eX

• How many Countries are there? https://youtu.be/hrsxRJdwfM0?si=fHKRQu2PRsTye6HW

• The crazy cannab*s scam: https://youtu.be/KfONbvTukPA?si=ylSg42hpV_PXEc-T

• Everyone talks AI. Very few understand the transformers behind it: https://youtu.be/wjZofJX0v4M?si=Dtq78cEP1cRA5F2r

• Uranium explained. A bit political at the beginning but then jus fantastic: https://youtu.be/boUqlyYfUuo?si=MLDCsBFD5vpI6dOQ

• How Tennis slowed down 🤯: https://youtu.be/yL4tEaGycFo?si=WUqdGPgKZIbuKm6x

Podcasts

• The Story of Sam Altman. One of the best podcasts I heard recently: https://open.spotify.com/episode/05CZqs38JzxBcMvUwx0WRW?si=09nJ73iXSkq56HKamdwLPA

• Got some banger Podcasts myself. For example, listen to the last one about the Business Dynasty Sulzer: https://open.spotify.com/show/2y20nP72sdrUSODsMsRQlM?si=43L-7h8iRvKEWFH2OBHltA

• Thank you to everyone who has subscribed and left a review 🙏

Books

• The crazy Story of Jho Low who scammed Malaysia for several billion dollars and financed the movie Wolf of Wall Street: https://www.amazon.com/dp/031643650X

• All investor letters of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger in a book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1804090670

3. Tools & Hacks 🛠️

• Find the most famous person in your hometown: https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people

• Find your TikTok history. Thank me later: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdmTEGPp/

• Use sticky notes the right way: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLajV8dqbUD/

• 20 survival tricks:
  https://youtu.be/fZndJO2jUJk?si=yf-kWI66HI5QxY3s

• Finally. Which houses you should buy in Monopoly. World champion explains: https://youtu.be/qAi26NVUucw

4. Sponsors & Collabs 🤝

Tools I personally use and recommend:

• AYUN: this is where I improve and track all my health and longevity

Get 10% off on any check-up with code AYUN4ALAN (once per person)

See all my personal health data here: https://alanfrei.ayun.ch/

• Konsento: I use this tool to run my General Assembly online. Love it.

Code: 25% off with code alan25

Use this link: https://app.konsento.ch/auth/new-register?partner=alanfreicompany

• Swissquote: my main trading platform

100 CHF Credits with code MKT_ALANFREI (min. 1000 CHF deposit)

Link: https://af.af/swissquote

• Find all people / companies I trust and work with: https://www.alanfrei.com/partners

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