Eli built a trailer-leasing business from his phone, starting with one $350/month lease and scaling to 300 trailers generating $250,000 monthly revenue. He found deals on Facebook Marketplace, used AI for research, and hired two virtual employees he's never met. The entire operation runs from Colombia.
$250K a month?
$250K a month, yeah.
Wow. So you were making $7,500 a month recurring in your first 2 months?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah. Okay.
Just from Facebook Marketplace posts? Yeah, just from Facebook Marketplace posts. That's what enabled me to travel. That's why I've been traveling for years now because I could do everything from my phone. It's straightforward stuff.
Any AI really can take you 90% of the way there. How much money did it take to start this business in total? I just had to pay my insurance. By the end of this episode, if someone has no experience in the industry, Will they be able to have enough knowledge to where they could start this business themselves?
Oh yeah, definitely. I had no knowledge when I was starting this business. I had no idea.
You know those big semi-trucks driving on the highway? Well, someone probably leases those trailers to them. And today that someone was Eli. In 2019, he was a real estate agent in Connecticut who'd started matching truckers with loads for about $80 a pop. Then one day his uncle asked if he could rent a trailer for his semi, and Eli didn't know anything about this business, so he found a company to lease him a 53-foot semi-trailer. trailer from a big company for about $350 a month, and then he rented it to his uncle for about $750 a month. After getting an insurance policy, he was in business, and that's the whole startup cost. 6 years later, he had 300 trailers and was profiting over $50,000 a month with 2 virtual employees that he'd never met in person. And he ran this whole business from his phone in Colombia. And by the end of this video, you're gonna know exactly how to copy him. Please enjoy.
