Mike Andes built Lawn Boy into a billion-dollar business by refusing to quit at the usual stopping points: $100K, $1M, $10M, $100M. Most founders bail at one of these milestones. He kept going.
There is no linear path to success. And so there will be a day that I will take the company public. There will be a bunch of news articles about how Lawn Boy took— makes a billion-dollar business. And I will then have a link to this video and all the other proof of all these stories that have happened. And I will just say, the reason most people will not build a billion-dollar business is because they quit at $100,000. They quit at $1 million. They quit at $10 million. They quit at $100 million because of all of these pain points.
