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Green Pal is a 10-year overnight success.

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My two co-founders and I have been at this

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for a little over a decade.

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But now it's nationwide in the United States,

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so anywhere in the US you can use it.

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Around 300,000 people use it every week.

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And the idea we had to start it 10 years ago

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is the same idea we're working on now,

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which is how do you make this chore

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as easy as pushing a button?

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And the idea came from my first business,

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which was a landscaping company.

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I had a lawn mowing business.

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I ran for 15 years in Nashville, Tennessee,

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eventually growing it from me and a push mower

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to over 100 employees.

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And then it was acquired in 2012

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by a big national company out of Texas.

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And after that, I thought I was just gonna stop working

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for a while, but I got bored really quick.

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And I watched the movie, The Social Network,

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and they made it look super easy to start a tech startup.

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They built Facebook in 30 or 40 minutes,

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and it looked awesome.

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And so I thought, I wanna be a tech entrepreneur.

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And luckily I didn't know what I didn't know.