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Key Takeaways Chase Gallagher treated mowing lawns at age 13 like a real business, learning to respect money and earn it instead of quitting when tasks got tough.
He convinced his mother to let him complete the 11th and 12th grades via online high school, freeing up his days to work and grow his lawn care company while he completed school at night.
He eventually rebranded to chase bigger projects, moving from $50 lawn jobs to project-based work.
Chase Gallagher’s story begins with a single lawn mower and his parents’ yard. As a 13-year-old, he was getting paid $20 a week to mow his parents’ lawn, and he realized that lawn care was the only skill he could immediately monetize. He lived in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and there were plenty of lawns he could take care of.
He searched for clients, stuffing flyers advertising his skills into mailboxes around the neighborhood. He landed just two clients in his first year, generating a total of $85 in revenue, and recalls a formative day picking weeds just to make $40.
“I just remember I wanted to quit,” he tells Entrepreneur. “I wanted to quit, but I just kept pulling those weeds.”
That experience taught him a lifelong lesson he still carries with him: “I have to respect money,” he says.
Chase Gallagher. Credit: Housecall Pro
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