4 years ago I was 19 with no money, clients, or clue what to do with my life...
I'm 23 now, I've made over $3M online, and I've built 2 seven-figure companies.
And it all started with dropshipping at 17:
I spent $40 on ads for my first store, got 2 sales, and switched it off.
My second store scaled to $100 a day in spend, then died a few months later because I wasn't profitable.
I literally told my own parents I wasn't cut out for entrepreneurship.
Ironic, given what I do now.
Then came university, and a retail job I hated.
I'd spend my lunch breaks running outside to binge YouTube, searching for a way out.
Eventually I found a small creator, maybe 2,000 subscribers, talking about the agency model.
I paid him everything I had.
I was already deep in student debt, living off my overdraft, and I went further into debt to buy his program.
It was a kind of "figure it out as I go" thing.
Yet it was what started everything.
I got my first clients off Twitter, running a giveaway strategy while everyone else drowned in cold email.
And I never did free work.
I charged $1,000/month out the gate and scaled up from there.
But for the first year, the business was just me.
I was the product, the marketing, sales, delivery, etc.
From $0 to $10k a month, you can't escape the work you hate, because you can't afford to hire anyone.
It took me a full year to hit my first $10k month.
Then I got comfortable, and it nearly cost me everything.
I moved into my own apartment at 20, started making $30k a month, and took my foot off the gas.
By March 2024 my business had actually gone backwards.
The period I grew fastest was the period I was least comfortable.
That taught me to be careful of comfort for life.
I ran that agency for 2 and a half years, mostly stuck around $40k to $50k a month.
Then I switched on paid ads in December 2024.
We went from $50k to $150k a month in 3 months.
2 and a half years of grinding, and nearly all the growth came in one 90-day window once the ads went on.
The vehicle was right the whole time.
I just had to keep hacking away until it compounded.
The only way you guarantee you fail is if you quit.