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Key Takeaways Junk Teens hit $3 million in revenue in 2025 and is projected to reach $5 million this year.
The brothers have implemented a series of systems to grow the business and eye future scale.
Junk Teens also relies on an app vibe coded by one of its teenage employees.
In 2024, when Entrepreneur first connected with brothers Kirk McKinney, 22, and Jacob McKinney, 21, their Greater Boston-based junk-removal business, Junk Teens, was still a side hustle, albeit a $1.2 million one.
Image Credit: Junk Teens. Kirk McKinney, left, and Jacob McKinney, right.
The then-teenaged brothers launched Junk Teens back in 2021 with a single pick-up truck. A pair of working speakers found at a dump grew into a collection of resellable items — $1,000 worth — sold on Facebook Marketplace.
Now, the brothers’ largely student-run service, which also serves Cape Cod and Rhode Island, operates eight trucks and has 25 full-time employees. The business has handled an estimated 7.4 million pounds of items, sorting usable goods for donation, resale or repurposing whenever possible.
Junk Teens hit $3 million in revenue in 2025 and is projected to reach $5 million in revenue this year, per the company.
The company also grew its community partnerships. A computer drive with Computers 4 People distributed refurbished laptops and desktops to under-resourced communities, and a partnership with WellStrong on the Cape raised funds for wellness and peer-support programs that aid substance abuse recovery.
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