And I really didn't want to be in the lawn mowing business.

I didn't go to school to learn how to cut grass, but it was a good little business.

Had a couple little helpers.

And so I just stuck with it, made a little business plan and executed against it, got done in three years what I thought would take five.

And then fast forward over a 15 year period of time.

I built that business up to over

150 employees, over $10 million a year in annual revenue and 70, 80 trucks going out every day.

It was a pretty big operation and sold that business in 2013 to one of the largest landscaping

companies in the United States. After I sold that business, I took some time off.

I retired. I didn't have to work anymore, which was nice, but I got bored.

And so I thought, okay, I need to get back in the game, want to get back in the arena.

And the idea for Green Pile was just a simple one for me.

It was basically solving my own problem.

I saw how difficult it was every day homeowners would call

us begging us to come cut their grass. And I thought an app needs to exist to connect homeowners

who need to have their lawn mode with server providers. So recruited two co-founders and we went to

work on the project and now we're an eight year overnight success. Several hundred thousand homeowners

use the app and doing $20 million a year in revenue.

Welcome to the home service expert, where each week Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs and

experts in various fields, like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership to find out what's really

behind their success in business. Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire,

Tommy Mello.

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