Green Pal is a 10-year overnight success.
My two co-founders and I have been at this
for a little over a decade.
But now it's nationwide in the United States,
so anywhere in the US you can use it.
Around 300,000 people use it every week.
And the idea we had to start it 10 years ago
is the same idea we're working on now,
which is how do you make this chore
as easy as pushing a button?
And the idea came from my first business,
which was a landscaping company.
I had a lawn mowing business.
I ran for 15 years in Nashville, Tennessee,
eventually growing it from me and a push mower
to over 100 employees.
And then it was acquired in 2012
by a big national company out of Texas.
And after that, I thought I was just gonna stop working
for a while, but I got bored really quick.
And I watched the movie, The Social Network,
and they made it look super easy to start a tech startup.
They built Facebook in 30 or 40 minutes,
and it looked awesome.
And so I thought, I wanna be a tech entrepreneur.
And luckily I didn't know what I didn't know.