Case Study: A Sweaty Startup

Bryan Clayton, GreenPal

Joining me is an entrepreneur who started out by pushing a lawnmower. In this interview, you’ll hear how he was able to actually scale that into a business and even sell it. What he did next is even more interesting.

Bryan Clayton is the founder of GreenPal, a freelancing platform that connects landscapers to clients in the United States.

Bryan Clayton

GreenPal

Bryan Clayton is the founder of GreenPal, a freelancing platform that connects landscapers to clients in the United States.

Andrew: Hey, they’re freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs, usually in the tech space about how they built their phenomenally exciting, successful businesses. Joining me as someone who was on, we had tech issues and we lost the interview. And I can’t stop thinking about the conversation that I had with him.

That’s because Brian Clayton started out basically just pushing a lawnmower and the fact that he was able to get his previous business peach tree, as big as it got. And we’ll talk about how big it is doing. Just the kind of stuff that I think is almost invisible to us when we’re out in the world. Like if we’re going past a fast food restaurant and there’s someone who’s mowing the lawn, we don’t think that that’s a whole industry.

That’s a whole business and how big it can get. Anyway, Brian took that business. Peachtree grew...

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