17 Year Old Running a $4M Lawn Care Company WITH NO EMPLOYEES!? 

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Great video Mike!! Super grateful you came out to Eagle, to help out Eagle! I really appreciate you a ton!!! And all the stuff you are doing to help small businesses. Know that I think about all the things you taught me all the time, and try to implement them every day.

So impressed by Nathan’s maturity and willingness to try new things! I honestly believe that with his creativity and resilience… he can 100% do whatever he puts his mind to.

This young man is going to directly compete against Angi's List.

Dudes a killer! That is amazing how much he’s accomplished and how shortly after meeting with Mike! Keep at it brother!

I think it’s awesome how he hired his disabled brother. Poor guy 😢

Ok... so it's not $4m company, it's a $360k company and he does have an employee? WTF is with the title being based on a speculative business?

Great episode! Him saying “yeah” after everything Mike said got to me 😂

makes me so happy to see this young guy getting after it and using his God given talents to go build something special. Keep it up brother! Age is not a limiting factor I wish you all the best and my God bless your endeavors

Mike you the man. Just watching you have grown my business in just 2 years to 150 customers and 6 commercial properties and just a 2 man crew right now. We are growing so fast in sc. at Sargent lawn care when we hit 300 customers we definitely reaching out. Thanks all you do.

I was one of Nathan's first customers in Eagle. He just graduated school i found him on Google he came out gave me a quote i hired him and his crew to do the mowing and lanscaping. I love doing yard work so the following season i took the yard over but i impressed by this young mans work ethics and determination to be successful.

One of the nicest and most honest guy ever running a business. He's been ripped off but he keeps a high spirit about and keeps pushing by. This company is amazing and I want to see this man trading on wall street one day.

Love this. Does my heart good to see the younger generation taking the bull by the horn

Dude’s gonna kill it because he believes and is takes action. So many people could learn from this guy. Computer skills are amazing too

Man, I almost want my business to fail so I can get to have Mike come out😭🤣.

I am one of Nathan’s employees and I can say he is super chill and really great owner, he is killing it 💪🏾

Unreal kid! Kudos to the very young entrepreneur. Huge potential!

Great to see a young man like this working hard at building a business.

Someone who actually listened to Mike, and made it work. Young man has a good head on his shoulders. The guys who are on this channel bragging about their $90,000 pickup truck, they can't afford, should take a lesson from him.

These young guys amaze me how much they can get done!!! I use the ego trimmer as well but only need two 5 amp hour batteries to get me through the day. Sometimes only one.

17 years old, this is crazy. You are right, though. People would take advantage of that. If i were 17 and have that much work, I'd probably have to hire muscle to keep my staff from trying to take advantage. Keep it up, brother. I think I've heard this kid call into mikes lives before.

Great video, that’s a blessing. You never know I might see you later on down the road. Thanks

Been watching your videos for years Mike! Thanks for the great content! I think your channel is very underrated for the value and the video quality! I recently started making content, and had no idea how much work goes into content creation! 😅

I remember when I was a kid, I went to a friends house, & I remember his dad asking me a something, & I replied saying "yeah" & he chewed me out, & said to never say "yeah" & watching this video reminded me of that, & I couldn't tell you how right my friends dad was. Kid is definitely going places, but definitely needs to stop saying yeah.

I enjoyed the two month follow up

I never realized you were that short 😂 New to your videos, you're a brilliant dude! Love the concept! 👏👏👏

I am a landscaper and it’s hard to find good help. I feel like I have a daycare instead of a lawn care if I’m not holding there hand, they’re messing something up.

Kids talking about how he’s building everything and hooking it up to AI, I see Mike quietly thinking how much he is currently spending doing all of that!

I had a drink everytime he said "yeah" 😂

You have the best content man. I’m in concrete and I’m learning so much from your content. Me and this kid are similar. I’m more of the lead generator. I create and do my own websites, seo, google my business, google ads, fb ads, estimates, and sales,but operations has always been my bottleneck. I only have 1 quality sub that I use right now. It’s about finding guys like him, it took me 5 contractors before I found a price and the quality I was looking for.

I hope you are able to do follow ups with some of the turn arounds you have done. Would love to see the progress!

Whats cookin? Great to see a young man like this working hard at building a business! Thanks for this video)))

I have 30 yards that I maintain on my own. I don’t have a LLC or business name. I just go by me. I don’t have insurance. I own 2 trailers but only 1 truck. I own a Wright Stander 36” and Toro Titan 42” I love working alone because there’s no stress. I was fired from my last job for not being a “team player,” which led me to start my own lawncare business. I don’t advertise. All my yards were either given to me or bought off of someone who was exiting the business. If you do a good job you don’t need to advertise. The work comes to you. Some of my clients came to me from word of mouth or approach because of the quality and consistency of my work. I have full quality control since I work alone. I find that my customers like that I work alone and have complained about the change in quality when I tried hiring someone in the past. So I’m resistant to hire anyone even though I realize it limits my potential to expand the business. I want full control and I feel like that’s only possible when I work alone.

This is why I do all the work myself. Don’t have to deal with subcontractors.

Great episode !! Keep them coming Mike !

Good vid 😂watching and hearing him saying yeah over and over get to my head lol why he keep saying yeah after everything Mike says 😂

Baddass maan I hope you keep thriving!

This young man is a beast!

This kid is awesome he’s going to do really good

This young gentlemen is beyond impressive. Amazing stuff this man is going to build in the future it appears.

I’ve be en in the remodeling business since 1987, hard to make it with so many others out of work doing it cheap, I know Quality isn’t cheap and cheap isn’t Quality in my line of work. To do it the right way, it’s not cheap and many are shocked at the prices but not as shocked as me when I see how much some others actually charge. At least I sleep well and have a roof over my head. That’s all I have after 30+ years of self employment. Maybe I should have cut lawns, the numbers mentioned in this video were amazing and much more. Than I ever saw in my line.

He’s talented

personally i believe nathan could pass the 4M revenue in no time. we did it in the past, lead generation equals big business.

20:00 - 20:08 needs to be redacted. Lots of personal client info that could be used maliciously. Love the episode other than that tiny lapse in editing!👍

A 16 year old business owner with all that equipment and trucks = daddy’s money

Crazy for his age. What a great guy 👍

Great episode, sometimes you may actually need to use the skill that you are best at and not try to force things, but at least he tried that side of the business and is open to another avenue that he is best suited for.

No no no. Completely wrong He should do a lead gen company. NOT subcontracting the jobs SO much simpler and zero liability PLEASE this is the way to do it.

What software is he using for the survey?? Like where it asks the size of the lawn and such

As a 13 year old im starting a lawn care business and i need advise what to invest in and the targets to go for

ur videos are fkin awesome and so informative man, Gave me the confidence to start my own business

How long does it usually take to know if someone qualifies for a turnaround after they submit their video?

Absolutely amazing idea if the lawn guys don’t want to go to from door to door, love it

proud of this young man

what an amazing young man!

I love these videos Mike. You are such a good person the world needs more people like you.

Mike come help me! 😂

Great business model!! Great job!

He needs an experienced ops manager with proven numbers. Pay him well. Let him do what he does with that keyboard. And maximize both sides. 🤷🏼‍♂️

The chat bot he made was quite easy to program. Anytime a customer sends a message, reply yeah..

Very awesome video

Keep at it and for sure your going places

God bless you Mike 👏👏👏 You are so insightful 👍

How many accounts does he have? I work with my brother we do 80-100 accounts a week just me and him. I get $20 under the table so can’t collect on the off months. He tells me that’s the going rate. Just curious what some other fellow landscapers get.

This is cool af, I was scared at first. But kids got what it takes!!!

Your p&l looks like you're making lots of money but are you reinvesting all back into the business? Wouldn't that be in the p&l? Maybe ment accounts billable?

The only problem would be is that you don’t know what kind of quality the subcontractors are going to deliver it sounds like it’s working fine

Mike is the 🐐

Gahhh, my nephew wants to be a coder and can already do some crazy stuff at his age. I just worry AI will eventually take there jobs. Like they are literally building their replacement... idk if I'm the only one who sees that?

What type of a sub contractor would mow a yard for 24 dollars to drop your gates. I wouldn't drop my gates for under $52 dollars if I had to supply a truck, trailer, insurance for truck, workman comp insurance, 14 percent for Social Security, and my company liability insurance, Are these guy 1099 or self employed. If I was mowing 80 to 100 yards and bring in 4800 to 6000 a week; it would only take me another 15 hours to do credit card billing. Quality control is going to be bad along with headaches if you start having different sub contractors on the same account. Your also gong to have to train subcontractors and end up spending 24 to 40 hours on them and your still going to have to 1 to 2 days a week driving routes to make sure all of your subcontractors are doing quality control. For every 1.5 million in sales you will need to hire a sales account manager to schedule a route for that amount of contracts, do curb sales, handle quality control issues, If I were to sub out work it would only be for the mowing, spring and fall leaf cleanup, and for doing plowing. I would hire a irrigation tech with installation knowledge and start to install, and I would do all of my own landscaping. Do it in stages. Once I got over 2 million in sales, I would start to do the higher profit margin areas of Horticulture. Irrigation work: 90 dollars an hour for a service work, lighting is profitable, hardscape, and landscaping. I would also have the inhouse crews do all of the mulching, floral, and pruning. I would also start to bid on commercial accounts and only do 3 year contracts. I WOULD USE A GROUP LIKE GO ILAWN FOR MY BIDDING FOR EVERY ACCOUNT FOR HOMES AND COMMERCIAL. It only cost about 4 dollars per use to get a exact measurement of the property and you can print out color coded areas on each site map so your crews know what size mower to use. It appears you use push mowers to mow. That is recipe for failure if you think your going to sent different crews to different properties based upon growth or to cover shortages for subcontractors. A zero turn will last for 2400 hours before it starts to need repairs. If you are gong to be a sales force group, you also need to be in the leasing business. Go to a company like Exmark and make a deal for fleet rates and lease 10 to 30 mowers or what ever you need every 3 to 5 years. I would put 800 hrs on a mower every year doing commercial work. I would do three year leases for 30 or so new mowers every three years and we were required to buy it at the end of the lease and then I would sell them all for around 2,000 to 3,500 each to a wholesaler for used equipment. I had a boss once that owned three companies: A leasing firm, real-estate for his properties, and one for his accounts and employees. The company that did all of the work didn't own a single piece of equipment or building. He lease everything to them so incase he got sued or somehow had to file bankrupt, it would only be for the one company he owned. He currently owns the company Go Ilawn and Ground Systems in Ohio. He owns several Shops and services over a hundred miles in direction. I think they made around 38 million last year for his Horticulture group. He sold it Brickman Group when he had a partner and then he started new again in 2013.

This kid is good. Really smart. Love the idea.

Really bright kid, definitely going places.

This guy is going to be a Beast..

I live my EGO. But I always wondered what a professional lawn care person would pay to keep an all electric collection of tools running.

Amazing!

@5:42 interviewer missed a perfect opportunity to dive deeper into that situation. That insight could help others a ton.

He shouldn’t have even been able to cash the check he got from the customer it should be made out to the company and only the owner should be able to cash those as he could’ve went back to the customer and asked to get the check rewritten and have the other check voided and still made the money

This kid is going to make it, I have no doubt

I tell you what… Hard manual labor is quickly becoming more and more a nerds game in the industry. Those who are savvy enough to keep up with the technology and advancement in AI are going to make serious bank and they’re hardly going to have to lift a finger to do it unless you count pressing keys on a laptop. I was hoping humanoid robots would get to a point where they could eventually do the weedeating for me. I didn’t even think about using AI to help with the backend of the business which is totally possible right now! That’s crazy smart!

Nathan: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What a great kid

So after the contractor gets the job and is making the customer happy what is stopping him from firing Eagle and charging the customer at 90% directly? 🤷‍♂️

How do I find a good marketing company.

Kid is a sponge! Good on him

Woe! Probably started working since he was inside mother’s womb.

This guy needs to stop cutting lawns and build and sell customer acquisition systems.

Bateries 350 😂😂

This is awesome

He’s 17 smart and ambitious going against Yelp, and Angie’s. I hope he wrecks them. Their leads are so expensive.

I'd pay this guy good money to be a consultant for my fence company EDIT: specifically the young kid

why do you NEVER mention net profit margin or total year end profit..? makes a HUGE difference .. stop talking about revenue. useless.. completely useless

This kid is definitely a future millionaire

If you're sub contracting work out, that makes you a contractor. You're dealing with the costumer and your subs ..

smart young man!

It’s like Lawn starter or green pal

Let him do things his way he still making money regardless

Hate he lost money from a place that he did an extra site for wish they would’ve told him or just made a deal with him cause he did a job

Yeah

This model is really sticky for the subs, It is a easy way to be bleed out. If you sub to this model, Make sure you are getting paid and are keeping up with inflation. Working for free or working and losing money (AKA paying to work) is not fun.

no employees ? i see 2 following him up the driveway