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I just talked to a guy who makes $421,000 a year net profit from a laundromat. In Hamilton, Ohio. Population 60,000. He opened it during COVID. First quarter after grand opening he was already on track for $400,000 a year. By year four he crossed a million. His biggest machine does six to seven turns a day at $22 base price. That one machine makes $30,000 a year in profit. It paid for itself in 12 months. Even crazier his utilities run under 10% of revenue because the equipment weighs the laundry and uses the exact amount of water it needs. His name is Tyler. He runs four laundromats across Ohio His prices are at or below the old laundromats in town and his equipment is top notch. Customers come in, see the equipment, and never go back. In this episode Tyler: - Breaks down the startup cost and the five-year payback math - Shows me the free laundry weekend playbook that ramps revenue to six figures in 90 days - Tells me why they built next to the best laundromat in town on purpose - Breaks down the commercial laundry play that adds $100,000 a month from hotels and fire departments @TylerPurcell24 was awesome!

I just talked to a guy who makes $421,000 a year net profit from a laundromat. In Hamilton, Ohio. Population 60,000. He opened it during COVID. First quarter after grand opening he was already on track for $400,000 a year. By year four he crossed a million. His biggest machine does six to seven turns a day at $22 base price. That one machine makes $30,000 a year in profit. It paid for itself in 12 months. Even crazier his utilities run under 10% of revenue because the equipment weighs the laundry and uses the exact amount of water it needs. His name is Tyler. He runs four laundromats across Ohio His prices are at or below the old laundromats in town and his equipment is top notch. Customers come in, see the equipment, and never go back. In this episode Tyler: - Breaks down the startup cost and the five-year payback math - Shows me the free laundry weekend playbook that ramps revenue to six figures in 90 days - Tells me why they built next to the best laundromat in town on purpose - Breaks down the commercial laundry play that adds $100,000 a month from hotels and fire departments @TylerPurcell24 was awesome!

I just talked to a guy who makes $421,000 a year net profit from a laundromat. In Hamilton, Ohio. Population 60,000. He opened it during COVID. First quarter after grand opening he was already on track for $400,000 a year. By year four he crossed a million. His biggest machine does six to seven turns a day at $22 base price. That one machine makes $30,000 a year in profit. It paid for itself in 12 months. Even crazier his utilities run under 10% of revenue because the equipment weighs the laundry and uses the exact amount of water it needs. His name is Tyler. He runs four laundromats across Ohio His prices are at or below the old laundromats in town and his equipment is top notch. Customers come in, see the equipment, and never go back. In this episode Tyler: - Breaks down the startup cost and the five-year payback math - Shows me the free laundry weekend playbook that ramps revenue to six figures in 90 days - Tells me why they built next to the best laundromat in town on purpose - Breaks down the commercial laundry play that adds $100,000 a month from hotels and fire departments @TylerPurcell24 was awesome!

We used to get hurricanes all the time. Big, powerful storms—beautiful storms, but they were a disaster. And you know why? Because they didn’t respect America, they thought we were weak. So I called NOAA and FEMA and said “we’re changing it to the Gulf of America, because these hurricanes have gotta stop pushing us around, it’s not good.” And the weather people said “sir, you can’t just change the name of an ocean, it won’t stop the hurricanes, they’re too strong!” But we changed the name and we got Tim Apple to change the maps and now we don’t have hurricanes anymore.

Joel Dahmen is gaming a new Hanna Golf Co. Denver putter this week. Spoke with company founder @DoerflerJared this morning who said it's the first time the small boutique milled putter company out of Iowa has had their putter in play on the PGA Tour. Doerfler said Dahmen has been a longtime supporter of the brand, even buying one of their first models at launch. Dahmen shot 60 with a Hanna Golf putter at home, but had never put one in play on Tour until this week. They've been in contact since, but a few weeks ago, Dahmen and his agent reached out and asked the company to make him a putter for an upcoming head-to-head test to find a flatstick for this week. Doerfler and Co put in 17 hours milling a putter for Dahmen based on the Denver shape with some modifications. They got the call earlier this week that Dahmen was going to game it. Doerfler quit his job and founded the company three years ago with just single CNC machine in his garage and no knowledge of how to use it. Now the company has crafted a custom putter for the PGA Tour.

The holy grail for robotics is being able to generalize: doing work in unseen places We rented 30 homes in the Bay Area and are doing tasks without any new training

Elon Musk has temporarily moved into a motor home on-site in Tennessee. Speaking on the All-In podcast, he confirmed he is staying in an Airstream trailer parked directly at the Memphis facility. Living here allows him to work alongside engineers to speed up work on xAI's Colossus supercomputer.

Back at the library house today to work some mantle magic. Client wants to use a beam salvaged from their home. We’re gonna make it float. Look at that buttery 2 pass cut from the track saw.

Had a full circle moment yesterday @MainStSummit And got to host a happy hour at Shakespeare’s pizza for 50+ entrepreneurs to meet and connect. 3 years ago, I had just joined SMB twitter. For the previous 6 years, @DTinSD and I had been building our property management business. By the start of 2023, it became clear that we needed to expand our network—it’s a scary thing to be the “most successful entrepreneurs” you know. Especially when you know you’re not particularly successful. So 1/1/23 I had found SMBtwitter and started posting. Immediately I found my Tribe. Other entrepreneurs in the trenches doing cool stuff, building, learning, sharing. About 3 months in I met @chrisxmunn (now a business partner), and a couple months after that I met @CoFoundersNik when he dm’d me to compare notes on X growth. He introduced me the @sodacitysimpson and I also joined @meetmikehiggins dads group with @TJLarkin23. Then in October, for the first time, much to my wife’s obvious concern—I jumped on a plane and flew to Columbia Missouri to “meet up with my internet friends.” @huntercdurham slept on our couch. And the second night @SMB_Attorney and @KHendersonCo hosted an open bar/pizza happy hour for anyone who wanted to stop by. That night, I met a couple dozen Twitter folks in person, I sat at a booth with @mhp_guy and watched him and Nik literally make everyone cry with laughter. And that was the first night Cole, Mike, Nik and I discussed an idea for helping other twitter folks to meet create a group and learn how to grow on X from each other. 6 months later, that conversation turned into Growth Madness that brought together 100+ Twitter folks into pods to learn how to post and share and grow together. We became unofficial stewards of the SMBX torch for 3 years and helped countless people connect and grow on here. That first year my group was called the Content Cowwboys and 3 years later, @ShannonJean @trevizo_gabe @tyler @AlexForbesOps @Depesh_Vyas @SuccessWithJake @DannyMagazu @joebenson @nahuelhilal and I are about to meet up in Nola for the 3rd annual retreat we do. We chat every day in our original twitter dm group. It all started with getting out of my comfort zone and a hosted happy hour at a college pizza joint in Columbia Missouri. And 3 years ago, I had just started @HirePavago as a little recruitment business with not too much of a plan. Last night, I got to return the favor—I got to host a happy hour at that same conference and at that same pizza joint for 50+ entrepreneurs to hang out and network, and hopefully build some relationships that will last a life time. And this time, 3 years later that little recruitment business had just launched its talent marketplace with hundreds of customers and a plan to take over the world. I can’t really express how much Main St Summit and SMBx have changed my life. I literally have life long friends, business partners, confidants and mentors who I have talked to hundreds of times, all found by putting myself out there, writing on the internet, getting on planes, walking up to strangers at a conference. And yesterday, I was incredibly proud to be able to do that for others. If there is one thing I could encourage in this community—it would be to meet people. Share your experience, strangers on the internet are reading it, they are learning from you, they are rooting for you, and they want you to dm them, support them, learn from them too. I’m proud to be a part of this community and to have watched so many incredible people grow and to have hopefully helped that growth in my own small way.

The oldest kid texted me right after he left asking if he could check out my zero turn because he wanted to buy one soon. A 14 yr old with 1 mowing season under his belt and had his sights set on a ~$5-8,000 mower. I couldn’t say no. He came back over and I gave him a rundown on how to operate it, maintenance, etc. His buddy muttered to him “ask him if he’d sell” I told him I wasn’t interested in selling but how about we barter a bit. I mentioned he could use it to mow around the neighborhood in exchange for helping with year end clean up and spring mulch. He said that’s exactly how he got his first mower. A 25 yr old ride on John Deere with bald tires and a bungee strapped hood. He was proud of that mower because he got it for free, fixed it up, and used it all season. Any kid who demonstrates that kind of ambition is a winner in my book and I am happy to go out of my way to help him out. Because there a few people who did that for me when I was a greenhorn business owner.