Mike Melton quit his $7.15-an-hour vehicle-inspection job at 19 and started a company from nothing, homeless and broke. He worked 20 hours a day for years, checked every job himself, and hired another homeless person to help. Most people won't do what it takes.
So I left a $7.15 an hour company. We was doing vehicle inspections, right? So we put little stickers on the window when, when stickers were going on windshields, right? And, and I was like, man, you know, this ain't for me. So what I did at 19, I started my own company and, and I started it in the neighborhood that I grew up in. And I knew everybody there. I knew all the drug dealers. I knew all the crack whores. I knew all the homeless people. And so what I did, I needed to open fast because I had no money coming in. I literally was homeless. Literally. Um, so I hired a homeless guy just to help me out, just, just to have a hand. Um, and I always did QC checks. I never let anything go out with, with just him touching it. Like, so I started with me and a homeless guy and I built it up over the years and I worked. 20, literally 20 hours a day. And a lot of people won't make that sacrifice. You will not do it. I made the sacrifice.
