This is a short YouTube interview between Mike Andes and a small-business owner (Speaker A) describing operational chaos after a partner named Landon left due to personal drama. The business (a lawn-mowing operation) grew rapidly—owner mentions combined accounts of ~60 yards, Landon had ~30–40 yards, and they expanded to ~220 accounts during a spring rush—then experienced missed work, leadership gaps, and a need to pause growth.
Let me get clear on this, and we can cut this out if you want us to.
No, you're good.
So there was another gentleman. I think it's Landon. His picture's still on the website, bless his heart. And it was you two?
Yes.
Does he just, like, lose interest in the business?
He. He had drama going on. Yeah.
Okay.
With another. His girl. We had, like, 60 something yards. Me and Landon did that. We were mowing, and that's fine. He had roughly 30 or 40 yards. So with us three, with us combining, we. We could be. We could be fine. The spring rush last year hit. We bought all those accounts. We had, like, 220. I don't want to talk bad about them, but it got to a point where, honestly, he was missing. Missing work. Missing work. Missing work. And I was like, hey, I got tired of it. And I said, hey, if you can't show up and do the same effort that we're doing, then I don't think you should be part of it anymore.
After he left, did you all have to kind of put brakes on growing, though?
Because he.
Immediately was like, your leader in the field.
Yeah.
Got it. So last spring was probably a lot of chaos.
It was rough. Yeah. It was stress on top of stress on top of stress. I mean, probably 80 hour, 80 hours a week minimum. And landscape side of things, he was landscaper too. So we kind of basically had to cut those out until we found guys. We scored, like, $70,000 in landscapes in one day. It was a joke finding guys. We never really caught up last year.
