Matthew Kelly started Gentry Club and ran ten small businesses while working at a burger bar. At 19 or 20, he scaled one to $50K a month through phone ads, then dropped out of university to go full-time.
Gentry Club
Around 2015
"Easily 10 businesses" (speaker's estimate)
"50 grand a month" (speaker's phrasing)
About 19–20 years old
Had this brand called Gentry Club in school, which everyone laughed at. And I put a logo on a white T shirt and had a Shopify store that was like 2015. I must have started between then and now, maybe like easily 10 businesses. By business, I mean a logo and a concept and put some money into it and then. Yeah, that's kind of the. The short, condensed version. We can get into what happens since we go. But what was the moment when you realized, I'm going to drop out of my advertising degree and focus full time? Was there like a number or a moment when I realized I could sustain myself financially without having to get a. So I was working in a burger bar which was opposite my uni house when I was like 1920, and I used to literally go on my break and run ads on my phone with like my 10 pound a day budget. I think we grew that business to like 50 grand a month. Is when I thought, I don't need to go to uni anymore. But I didn't quit. I just stopped going to lectures. So people thought I was some bum just sat home smoking weed when actually I was in the office 15 hours a day grinding and scaling.
