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Where did this vision come from to create the Uber lawn care?

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Well, so, uh, green pal is a 10 year overnight success.

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My two co-founders and I have been at this for a little over a decade,

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but now it's, it's nationwide in the United States.

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So anywhere in the U S you can use it around 300,000 people use it every week.

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And, uh, the idea, the idea we had to start it 10 years ago is the same idea we're

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working on now, which is how do you make this chore as easy as pushing a button?

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And the idea came from my first business, 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, eventually growing it from like me and a

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push mower to over a hundred employees.

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And, and then it was acquired in 2012 by a big national company out of Texas.

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And after that, I got, I thought I was just going to like stop working for a

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while, but I got bored really quick.

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And I watched the movie, the social network and they made it look super easy

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to start a tech startup.

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They built Facebook in like 30 or 40 minutes and it looked awesome.

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And so I thought I want to be a tech entrepreneur.

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

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Cause I never would have started this, but I thought somebody's going to build an

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app that works like Uber, but for lawn mowing.

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And so that's, that's where the idea came from.