#700 Cutting Edge Success: GreenPal's Journey to One Million Customers w/ Bryan Clayton, Co-founder of GreenPal

In this episode we’re joined by Bryan Clayton, Co-founder of GreenPal. GreenPal has been dubbed ‘Uber for lawn care’ by Entrepreneur magazine and currently boasts over 300,000 users, with ambitions to make that figure 1 million in the next 5 years. Bryan joins us to share his lessons in building and growing GreenPal, as well as diving into the insights that helped him achieve a successful exit from his first business, Peachtree, in 2013. In the episode we discuss:The concept of mentorship vs. asynchronous mentorshipThe benefits of hiring pirates vs. romanticsWhat’s not taught in business school?Creating your own roadblocks to force reevaluation of your products and servicesImmersing yourself in industry research to accelerate your growthFunctionality that’s been critical to the reliability of GreenPal’s platformReferenced in this episode:[Book] Grinding It Out by Rac Kroc: https://amzn.to/3tb8USz[Movie] The Founder on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80101899?source=35[Book] The Lean Startup by Eric Ries: https://amzn.to/45eLwAW[Book] The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank: https://amzn.to/46v2gF0[Book] The Startup Owner’s Manual by Steve Blank: https://amzn.to/3PAehCjConnect with Bryan/GreenPal:https://www.yourgreenpal.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-clayton-a96b33214https://www.instagram.com/bryanmclayton/Connect w/ SiteVisibility:https://www.sitevisibility.co.uk/https://twitter.com/sitevisibilityhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/sitevisibility-a-division-of-ai-digital-ltd/https://www.instagram.com/sitevisibility/https://www.tiktok.com/@sitevisibility_https://www.youtube.com/@SiteVisibility/https://www.threads.net/@sitevisibilityIf you’d like to work with us, you’d like to feature on the podcast, or you have a guest or topic recommendation, please email [email protected]  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.