Tommy Mello

I always say, look at...

If you do this, quicker power to you, but usually the first five years is full of mistakes, long hours, and hard lessons that really – you know, my dad always used to tell me, I wish I knew then what I know now.

And he would just tell me, he's like, you know, I wish I was that – I wish it was that easy.

But you're going to have to make the mistakes.

And each mistake, as long as you don't make it again, you start really building momentum.

But it's like –

Shit's going to go wrong.

Your suppliers are going to screw you.

You're going to get stolen from.

You're going to get lied to.

You're going to get canceled at the last minute.

Like what could go wrong will go wrong until you really sit back and say, I'm going to be a systems guy and I'm going to start the business by saying no.

You know, you're going to have an opportunity to be a supplier.

You're going to have an opportunity to go after new construction.

You're going to have an opportunity to go after storms.

You're going to have an opportunity to go after retro.

You're going to have an opportunity where someone's going to say, can you do the side and can you do the windows?

And you're going to be like, well, I'm not going to do windows, but you know, I'll do it for a hundred grand.

And all of a sudden you're going to go, man, 100 grand, it only cost me 40.

And then you're going to mismeasure some windows.