Tim Ryan 🦝
@KenziesPoolBoy
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Built and sold 4 pool companies | Used the money to build the best software to run one | I host the @JoinSuperMedium podcast | I'm wittier than you
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Airbnb funded themselves by selling $30k in cereal.
We built and sold 4 pool companies and did the same thing.
Pool company 1 - $400,000
Pool company 2 - $500,000
Pool company 3 - $100,000
Pool company 4 - $1.5M+
We don't even need investors now.
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If you are a founder, that doesn't come from money, and everything you are is because of your own hard work, cleverness, and ambition. If you have no one to call for help financially, and if you didn't go to college, or went but had to pay for it yourself. DM me. We are starting
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I texted a new hire introducing myself
and he didn’t respond for two hours
So I gave him a call and he said sorry for not responding, he was out running errands.
So now I’m probably going to fire him
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LOI on a Mexican Drug Cartel?!
The staffing budget for the DEA has spent $54B since 2000.
The Sinaloa Cartel which is the biggest player in the US has 40% market share and makes about $3B annually.
At 10x revenue the DEA could acquire them for $30B
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My biggest problem with me sticking to a diet is that I have an authority problem and I don’t even tell me what to do.
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@BrianDavisTax
That’s what you would think, but letting them go is a better move.
If he isn’t the type of person who prioritizes texting his new boss back, he’s not going to be a good employee.
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@im_asl
I think in remote work you stand out through shear output and competence. In person people can very easily stand out through charm. Remote work levels the playing field for women and the less charming.
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Owning a service business will teach you 6-10% of the population is really fucking stupid.
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Might acquire two other pool companies.
Does Twitter know anything about buying businesses?
I haven’t seen a lot on here about it.
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@andruyeung
I saw a dude walk into a circle and ask.
“So what do you guys do?”
All three people said real estate and the guy just turned around and left without saying anything. 🤣
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Broke a personal record this month.
We picked up 63 customers in May alone. The most I’ve ever done in a single month.
The street value for a 60 pool route is about $120,000
The months technically not even over.
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@heydannymiranda
I read this thing about how after the 1900s the world started changing too fast, for the wisdom you accumulate early in life to be valuable later in life because the world had changed too much. Its why the elderly are not as valued today as they used to be.
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Super Medium is the first podcast with a married entrepreneurial couple for hosts. Tim and Mikenzie have been married 12 years, run 3 companies together and have 2 kids. Think
@myfirstmilpod
but the hosts are 40% less dorky and 60% more funny.
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Being funny is a super power!
(It’s actually not complicated)
Here are 10 rules, to make you funny and more memorable. 🧵
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@HarryStebbings
Best advice of the whole pod is if you are the leader in the room speak last so you don’t influence how other people are thinking about the problem
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How to start a pool company and retire by 25.
(This isn't the playbook I ran exactly, but if I could go back to 18 I would do this)
1. From 18-20 work for a pool company. Learn as much as you can. Spend the whole two years studying the trade obsessively. Get every licence you
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12. Should you get investors, staying in shape in marriage, the fine line between obedience for kids, and the artist who was almost murdered for art.
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Last pool of the day. I cleaned 15 today.
We are struggling to hire a new cleaner so I’m stuck in the field. Usually we don’t have this much trouble.
I got my first job in the pool cleaning industry in 2014 and at the time I was a cook at Panda Express. It was two years after
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@WilsonCompanies
@girdley
I went from running a pool company to now running a software company. To answer the question “I wonder if running a software company is harder than running a plumbing company?” Fuck no.
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My best employee drove to my house late one night and tried to fight me drunk and on Xanax.
I let him sleep it off in my guest bedroom
He’s still my best employee
I think there’s just as much art to being a good leader as there is science
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4/5 Star Review
“They came out ON 4TH OF JULY, same day I called. Got to work straight away and we were swimming the next week. Did an awesome job.” -Terry
How do I get that fifth star Terry?!?!
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Just hit 250 recurring weekly maintenance customers with $47k in MRR.
Mid February we had 0 customers and $0 in MRR
I build pool routes fucking fast
This is the last time I’m doing this. We are keeping this route instead of selling.
It’s too much work to do this in 1 a year
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This is how much money we have made from building and selling pool companies since 2015
Pool Company 1 (2015 - 2019)
Sold for $358,000
My wife and I had one kid and were making $60k a year at the time. After this sale we sold our RV we were living in, went to Europe for 3
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@girdley
There are these non profits that convince people that if you send the non profit money, god will send you back even more money as a reward. It’s a huge market and very profitable.
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@KirkNewcombe
When this happened to me I was just able to track it using find my on my Mac and just went and got it using another Uber
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Broke 200 accounts today. Goal by end of year is 300.
That’s about $38,000 in MRR created since February 15th, 2023.
We started at $0 MRR in February.
A pool company this size could sell for $350k-$380k.
This is my 4th time doing this.
I hate it.
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@SMB_Attorney
A federal duck stamp is like $20 and a migratory bird license is $7.
If you had a good year and brought down 30 ducks that’s like .90 cents a duck
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I hated being a pool cleaner for a long time. Even when I’ve had a bunch of employees and was grossing $50k per month I would still have to clean pools.
It’s not a prestigious job title.
But the time I’ve spent cleaning pools has been insanely valuable.
-I’ve listened to
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@girdley
My wife contributed to the human race by birthing two babies, and puts up with me. I would love to give her a surprise getaway to see her favorite team.
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Our entire team is watching one of our pool cleaners try and pull off the ultimate pool boy fantasy.
We are all eating popcorn and rooting for him.
They are texting each other on the business line and she thinks it’s his personal #.
🫡
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@Codie_Sanchez
Ask for reviews. Typically the ones you get that you dont ask for are bad bad bad.
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I've stopped playing with my kids. I can't do it. I can't play pretend house or Pokémon or spend an hour on my knees pretending to be a dog.
Instead, I've started controlling the fun and being very intentional about how I spend time with them.
For example, yesterday I taught
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@nickgraynews
Turn it into the next book "A blind date in Tokyo - The modern guide to dating"
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The
@OwnedOperatedco
podcast did a short 26min dive into the pool care business.
Here is my breakdown of what
@WilsonCompanies
and
@thehvacjack
got right and wrong. It wasn't too bad for two outsiders looking in. Pool care is strangely complicated. Also shout out to
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16 year old me - So what’s our life like?
32 year old me - Pretty much all we do is clean.
16 year old me - What do you mean? Like a janitor?
32 year old me - Yeah kinda. We have two kids and so I’ll wake up early before work and help clean stuff. Then we own a pool cleaning
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@sweatystartup
I'd rather have like a half Mcdonald's playscape I could check my kid into like the gym daycare, and then the other half be a cool place adults could hang out, drink, and get food. It would be the only restaurant I would go to.
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January of this year we looked at our runway and decided we would run out it cash in November.
We had 60 pools we were maintaining at the time that we planned to test the software on.
We had 3 choices
1) Try to raise money
2) Roll the dice and hope we could sell enough
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@roblabonne
Cycling has the danger of an extreme sport combined with the dorkiness of pickle ball.
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Idea: property management company but for your kids.
School curriculum, shot schedules, dentists appointment, healthy diets, upcoming birthdays, grades, etc.
Pay someone to help take the mental load off of moms.
$300 per month. App on your phone.
@businessbarista
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Parenting tip: Install gymnast rings in your house.
They cost like $40 on Amazon plus 2 eye hooks into a ceiling stud.
My kids swing on them constantly and are strong as shit because of it.
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The phrase - “Have you asked friends and family?” is the worst phrase in startups.
Like no bitch my dad works for a moving company and my moms on meth.
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I started Tweeting my little heart out this year to possibly connect with some investors.
Instead a bunch of poor home service/SMB people started following me.
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Would you give up for two years
-weed
-drinking
-going out with friends
-good sleep
-Saturday’s and Sunday’s
-silent car rides
-peaceful nights out
To have a kid?
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I'm a man of honor. I refuse to lie.
Unless its to a customer. I'll lie straight to a customers face to avoid a bad review or cover my ass on service.
Customers have small brains and a lot of times its not worth the review or the stress to tell the truth.
When I fire
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Guys. If you can swing it. Your wife being your cofounder is the shit. Today we cleaned pools all day together and laughed 80% of the day. Now we are laying on the couch together, no kids tonight, watching love is blind. Still laughing.
#fuckablecoworkers
are the best.
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Today is 60 days since we started building a new pool care company from scratch. We’ve gone from $0 MRR to $17,000 MRR.
We need to get to $64,000 MRR by December.
This is how we are going to continue to fund our pool care software startup indefinitely without investors.
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Anyone that wants to come to SA in Feb and start a pool care company that caters specifically to vinyl liner pools.
I can get you making $12,000 MRR in 3 months.
Will cost $10k in startup costs
We refuse to clean them and turn people away constantly.
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There are two types of wealthy clientele.
One will try and nickle and dime you, and thinks you are price gouging them because they live in a nice house
The other doesn’t care, doesn’t have the time, and just trusts you are the expert.
I wonder how people end up the first kind.
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Customer requested we come out and do a second complementary re cleaning of their pool because he mowed and got grass in it, and has a party today.
He asked the morning of Memorial Day weekend on Saturday.
Then fired us when we said no.
He’s very disappointed apparently
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I’ve personally taken care of pools for the following ⬇️
-A very famous musician (I can’t name them)
-An ex billionaire who lost all his money due to SEC fines
-The founder of Black Rifle Coffee
-A Spurs coach
All this to say, if you own a home service company
Pay attention
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Our goals in 2024
Sell 500 software subscriptions for $279 per month. Which is $139,500 in MRR at an 80%+ profit margin.
Grow the pool company from 300 - 500 customers. Or $65,000 MRR to $112,000 MRR. Reach 30-40% profit margin.
Live/work from Norway for 1-3 months.
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You can charge more if you call bleach sodium hypochlorite
Dirty bluestone?
Spray it with 3-5% sodium hypochlorite
Let it sit for 10-20 min
Rinse off with a pressure washer
Repeat (if needed)
Collect a few hundred $$
Move on to the next
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@MIProfitHunter
My wife said cold plunging helped her anxiety more than anything she’s ever done
She could be having a full blown panic attack and will cold plunge and it turns it off.
It was such a difference we bought a $5k one and it’s now in our bathroom
She does it every morning
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One time, a dude with one arm applied to be at Pool Cleaner
So as an experiment, I spent the whole day cleaning pools with one arm to see if it was possible
It totally was
I didn’t end up hiring him though because he needed to be off by 3pm
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@girdley
I think the deeper lesson here is if you aspire for your kids to be a certain type of person. Be that person is in front of them and often.
Kids learn through osmosis.
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I’ve been on Twitter for 1 year.
I only consider 2 other accounts on here witty/clever
So the 2023 witty and clever award is down to its two finalist.
@gas_biz
@Exconvictguy
Who will win?
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@sweatystartup
Pest control is a good business cause the customer has no idea if you did anything or not. A dude just walks around spraying some mystery stuff and then leaves.
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What’s the recommended amount of Zyns per day to run an SMB?
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@thejuliegriggs
Im going to create a simulation and live inside of it when I'm in a nursing home.
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@theH_U_D
@ClintFiore
@SMB_Attorney
@LeadershipAcad1
Damn I guess didn’t lace enough sarcasm into that post.
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Fingers crossed.
Got two trainees starting this week.
If they work out I’ll be out of the field for the first time in 8 months.
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One of my followers got so excited to share my Tweets. They printed them off and taped them to the mailbox in my neighborhood.
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Started real world testing our own app today. We sent our first pool care reports and ran routes for the first time. This is a 3 + year dream coming to fruition. I’m so freaking excited.
#nohope
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I’m pretty sure if people were breaking into my house I would just mute my ring notifications for 4 hours and never even know.
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New pool care company just hit 150 customer or $28k in MRR. This is the halfway point for our goal this year. We started at $0 MRR back in February.
We also start dog fooding our own app either this week or next week.
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Customers - Are your employees background checked?
Me - Yes, every employee is thoroughly background checked before we hire them.
Customer - Ok cool, I feel safe now.
Me - *Nervously thinking that they only asked if we checked. Not if we found anything.*
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Im going to break this down tomorrow. Stay tuned. Im trying to decide what tone to take.
Any suggestions?
Another boring business I’d start to get a 6-figure income by the end of 2023…
Pool cleaning 🪣🧽
Here’s how I’d do it and hit $20k profit months as fast as possible:
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Just a video of my hot ass spankable wife throwing a perfect bullseye. I really wanna make a pun like “boy I’d love to plunge her later” or something but this is Twitter and Twitters professional.
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Customers who don’t trust you can be super annoying. I use this line a lot
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I bought a packet of snus to help me vape less
Then I bought a pack of cigarettes to still feel that lung burn, but I was only going to smoke one per night
Today I found a vape in my car
Now I’m smoking a vape with a snus in while smoking a cigarette every couple of pools
Smh
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