Mike Andes left medical school to start Augusta Lawn Care, which now operates 129 locations across North America. He wanted variety and mobility instead of decades of specialized surgical work. He's now interested in launching a biotech business.
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129 locations across North America
April 25, 2023
I started college when I was 13 years old. At the age of 18 I graduated from my undergraduate degree and was headed to medical school when I dropped out. Instead I went mowed grass, started Augusta Lawn Care and scaled up that business. The reason I didn't want to go to medicine was because I didn't want to go to school for another 10 or 12 years only to be pigeonholed into four or five different operating procedures as a surgeon and do that for the next 4050 years of my life. The beautiful thing about sales, entrepreneurship and owning your own business is that you might spend 510 years in one industry and then be able to move on to something else that's bigger, better or you might be more passionate. About nine years later I can truly say it worked out. We have 129 locations Gusta Lawn Care around North America. In terms of medicine I do believe that one day I'll eventually create some sort of business centered around biotech instead.
