“How I took on $100s of millions of VC-funded competitors & won”

Michael Scharf, MyClean, Funding

A few years ago it seemed like every venture capitalist tried to create the “Uber of cleaning services.”

Why did so many of them fail? Why did Michael Scharf’s MyClean service continue to grow?

Catch the interview to find out.

Michael Scharf

MyClean

Michael Scharf is the founder of MyClean, a full-service cleaning and janitorial company.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com. It’s the place where I do interviews with entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses.

Back in 2013, I interviewed a guy who had an online site that allowed you to book cleaners. And I wouldn’t have thought that business could be big except I talked to him before the interview and he said, “Look, Andrew, it’s generating lots of revenue and we’re pretty much bootstrapped and we’re still growing.” And at the time, the business was doing $4 million.

Well, it’s been a few years. He shot me an email to say that things have changed and he’s been growing his business and I invited him here to talk about where they are now, what the revenue is, how he grew from where he was then to where he is now and to just catch up on the cleaning business in general.

I wondered at the time why it was getting so much heat. Now...

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