Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

🎬 From TikTok to $1M Business Owner (at age 19!) 💰

22 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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A YouTube interview (host: Mike Andes) with a young window-cleaning business owner who started after seeing others on social media. The speaker describes beginning by knocking doors, hiring friends to expand a door-to-door team, and aiming to scale to $1–2M in revenue and sell within five years. Operational details include keeping equipment off the van due to theft, parking the van at a church they clean quarterly, and currently operating with one truck.

Questions this video answers

$1 to $2 million

In five years

At a church that the team cleans quarterly

So what got you into window cleaning?
Social media. I saw it on social media. Some guy just kind of posting his numbers. Hired a guy off. Indeed. And in the beginning, it was like my job was to knock doors and fill his schedule. Went pretty well. Some of my buddies wanted to come and work for me, and so we just kind of grew our door to door team. My goal is in five years to sell it. We'll build it up to, like, 1 to 2 million.
I assume that most of your equipment you can keep in the van.
We try not to, just because at the spot we park, like, we've gotten gas, like, taken and stuff. So we don't want the van to get broken into.
So you keep the van separate then?
Yes. Yeah. It's parked at a church that we clean quarterly.
Right now it's just the one truck. So if you have like two jobs, is all three of you going in one truck, or how's that working?
Yeah, so I'm actually not on the job sites anymore. It's just these guys, and we've got one van. I'm starting to realize that it's probably gonna be more efficient if they start working solo. We're wasting a lot of time with drive time.