Sam Parr
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And we do this in now 23 states, 37 markets.
We run...
on average, 25,000 jobs a month.
You know, when I was a kid, my mom was a real estate agent.
My dad had a transmission shop.
He didn't pay the IRS, so that got taken.
They got a divorce.
So I learned to shovel, snow mow lawns in Michigan.
I got a job when I was 12, washing dishes at $4.05 an hour.
And I always had the entrepreneurial gene.
I started a landscaping business when I moved to Arizona.
And I was living at this house, $700.
We paid rent for three guys.
I paid $200.
My other roommate paid $200.
The guy with the master paid $300.
And one of the roommates was manager at a garage door company.
He goes, dude, I cannot find a good painter to save my life.
If you guys know anything about painters, they're pretty unreliable.
And so he's like, can you paint garage doors?