Boring Money

How He Built an Eight-Figure Business Selling Toilet Paper

Jake Berk is 31 and the president of Berk International, a second-and-third-generation family business in Boyertown, Pennsylvania that converts toilet paper, paper towels

It’s Boring, But It’s How You Make Millions Investing

Jonathan Boyar runs Boyar Value Group, the firm his father Mark started in 1975 as a research service and grew into Boyar Asset Management in 1983. The idea has not chang

He Built 1.5M Followers With Zero Ad Spend. I Hired Him to Do It for Air Filters.

Stanley Henry ran hotels for 12 years. Eleven jobs in twelve years, because he was the guy they sent in to fix the one that wasn't working. New Zealand, Australia, t

He Does $6M a Year Bottling Water. One Robot Almost Broke Him.

Jay Peterson got out of Boston College in 1991 into no jobs, went home to Kankakee, Illinois, and sold industrial real estate for a broker who gave him the listing nobody

This Veteran's Boring Business Makes $11,000/Day

Ian Dahlberg got out of the Coast Guard and was trying to figure out what he was doing next. He picked up a security guard license on a whim while going to college on the

He Makes $185K/Year as an Electrician. I Told Him He Can Do $1M Next Year.

Ron Butler spent eight years at one residential electrical company and didn't want to leave. He asked them to match a $100K offer he'd gotten elsewhere. They co

He Got Fired Twice and Slept in His Car. Now He Does $450K Cleaning Floors.

Justin Campbell got fired from a management job at TGI Fridays, moved back home into the room down the hall from his grandmother, and started taking $50-a-day temp shifts

He Bought a Couple 3D Printers for Fun. Now He Has 105.

JT McCord spent eight years as a software engineer outside Columbus, Ohio, making $150K a year and stashing 30% of it. COVID sent him fully remote, and he bought a couple

He's 22 and Took the Family Business to $1M a Year. He Pays Himself $400 a Week.

Matt McCrink is 22. A year ago he graduated from Auburn and walked into his dad's business — a third-generation operation brokering custom plastic and rubber compone

He Owns 36 Auto Repair Shops Doing $50M a Year. He’s Never Fixed a Car.

Brian Beers has never fixed a car. He owns 36 Midas locations across Philadelphia, New Jersey and Allentown doing more than $50 million a year—with a CEO running the day

He Built an $11M Business in 5 Months. I Told Him to Stop Growing So Fast.

Gustavs has built one of the fastest-growing businesses I’ve seen. In the first five and a half months of the year, his greenhouse company generated $11 million in reven

He Makes $10M/Year in a Business Everyone Ignores

Daniel Morris started with no money, a borrowed £10,000, and a cleaning business that charged roughly £12 an hour. Today, CanDo Laundry Services generates more than $10

He Built an $8M Manufacturing Business… But His Real Dream Is Something Much Bigger

Every entrepreneur eventually reaches a crossroads. Do you keep scaling the business you’ve already built, or do you use it as the foundation for something even bigger?

How He Built a $5M Government-Backed Business in Just 3 Years (No Healthcare Degree Required)

What if one of the best business opportunities wasn’t selling to consumers at all—but providing essential services that the government is already paying for? In this epi

He Lost $500K Trying to Be a Mogul — Then Built an $850K Lawn Care Business

Ryan thought he had made it. He had a great medical sales job, lived in South Florida, and had built up real cash after a few successful real estate deals. But during CO

Building Millions in Cash Flow, Hiring Better Talent, and Going All In with Connor Gross

Connor Gross has built and operated across multiple income streams: an early e-commerce exit, self-storage and real estate deals, an apparel e-commerce business, content

The $10M Hat Business Built on Custom Software

Robert built Hat Launch from one embroidery machine in his garage into a $10 million custom hat business serving small businesses, blue-collar teams, and even pockets ins

How a 28-Year-Old Built a $1M Apparel Manufacturing Business in 12 Months

Most people have no idea how licensed apparel actually gets made. In this episode of Boring Money, I sit down with Zarum, co-founder of Forge & Fabric, a Canadian appare

From Bankruptcy to $2.4M: Building a Cleaning Business From Scratch

John Torres went from professional baseball dreams, two layoffs in nine months, failed real estate deals, food stamps, and bankruptcy… to building Club Clean into a $2.4

I Roasted His Car Wash Startup — Then Gave Him a $4M Plan

Paulo is trying to bring Flipwash, a successful Brazilian car wash concept, to the United States. In Brazil, the company has grown to more than 140 locations and roughly