Chase Gallagher is a 23-year-old entrepreneur who took the controversial route that more and more people are going for – not going to college. Instead, he decided to pour his heart and soul into a lawn mowing business he started when he was 12. Now he’s running a business that made a millionaire dollars in revenue this past year.
As a 12-year-old kid, Chase went around mowing the lawns in his neighborhood for $35 a pop. What started as a business with a mere two customers turned into a hustle with ten weekly clients (with a little help from his mother). He continued putting effort into the business and eventually went on to defy societal expectations by skipping out on college. He had already made $50,000 from his lawn mowing and decided to expand into general landscaping around the time he was 16 years old. He simply “didn’t see the ROI in going to university,” he told Fortune, even though he’d grown up with parents telling him that he was going to college. Not going to school has allowed Gallagher to focus on his business full-time and continue to expand it. Now he does “everything from stormwater management and drainage work to pavers and lighting” with his 9-person crew and raked in over a million dollars in revenue last year.
Something that we can learn from Gallagher is to not be afraid of going against the grain. Studies show that more and more people are actually skipping out on college to enter into the trades, and that people going into the trades can actually start with a better paying job than someone just graduating college. He’s driven by the money, as are many of us, because he can save quite a bit by not going to college, as well as make a lot from his business. Gallagher is a helpful reminder to me that successful businesses aren’t super successful right off the bat. You have to start small. It can take a while – years, even – for a business to become profitable and successful enough to live off of. Why not start your dream job today with finding yourself just one customer?
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Props to Chase! I have heard that landscaping is a large market. I really like that he stuck with it. He certainly got an ROI. I am inspired by this story. It makes me believe that I can make anything happen even if I go against the mold.
Chase is a dog! He really took a chance it paid off in a multitude of ways. I love how he was not afraid to fight against the path to college like many are raised and to start his own journey in pursuing a new path through business. Chase really is an inspiration to many entrepreneurs. He forged his own path and it turned out to be highly beneficial.