The "Boring" Businesses Making Millionaires in 2026

You don't need a [ __ ] dollar to do it. Thinking that you need money, thinking that you need investors is [ __ ] weakness. Monetize your passions. [music] [ __ ] What you need is some god damn Dropped out of high school in the [ __ ] 10th grade and I've made hundreds of millions of dollars. >> [music] >> If I'm early 20s starting with nothing, I'm getting myself on some sort of [ __ ] service based business that I can go out and sell with zero dollars. An example of that is pressure washing. This is something I used to do. I would go door to door knock and go, "Hey, I saw your your windows and your house is dirty. I can pressure wash this for you. I can do it for, you know, $500." I'd sell the whole thing, sign a contract with them, take a $250 deposit, 50% of it, and then I would go to the rental company and I would rent the pressure washer. I'd throw that thing in the back of the car and bring it to the house. Get the work done, then I go and drop it off. The other thing that I'm doing is I'm buying and selling [ __ ] on Facebook Marketplace. I'm a little old, so I was doing this 20 years ago, but I used to do that [ __ ] and run it up on Craigslist. I'd be out there four-wheelers, dirt bikes, cars, motorcycles. This is what you have to do. This is the secret to buying and selling on Facebook Marketplace or used items, right? You want to go and make such aggressively low offers that nine out of 10 people call you, "Get the [ __ ] out of here. [ __ ] you." You going to offend people because What you're looking for is to discover the pain in the market. One of these guys is sitting on this four-wheeler but needs to pay his rent. He's behind on his child support. And he's like, "Oh, man." And you're like, "Hey, bro, I got cash right here, right now." He's like, "Fuck." He doesn't have the time to get maximum value for it. So, because you're in a better strategic position financially than this guy is, you're able to take advantage of that, relieve him of his asset, get him the cash that he needs today, spit shine that [ __ ] up, list it, and sell it for more. One thing that I know Eric used to do, I know you used to do this, and the same thing happens with the rental. You take that dude's same photos, right when he sells that [ __ ] to you, and you put that [ __ ] back on the internet at just below what he had it at. And cuz the truth of the matter is, you could have that [ __ ] sold by the time you pick it up. You could cut the cost out of picking the [ __ ] up. It just trans It just trans that. Same thing on written the pressure washer. Let's say he sells that contract. There's two things that you got to notice that he said in this that he didn't actually just come out and say. He didn't go create cost until he had money. So, he goes through that neighborhood knocking doors. Knock knock knock knock knock. Can I do yours? Can I do yours? Can I do yours? Okay. And so, the next thing you know, he's got two or four contracts. Then he goes and rents that [ __ ] for a whole day and knocks out all those things on one day, three, four, five houses, and he never spent money until he had the contract in hand. >> A lot of people think they got to go raise [ __ ] money. They need their rich uncle. Let me tell you something about people that raise money. They end up spending it on stupid [ __ ] Yeah. That's why you see ping pong tables in offices. >> Let me tell you something. Justin and I are the same age and we're old enough that we lived through the economic crisis of 2008. The [ __ ] market melted. Young bucks, you don't know nothing about this. You had people with master's degrees, fresh out of Ivy League [ __ ] school, and you would go into Chili's or Applebee's and they would be waiting tables and interviewing trying to get a job for six months, for nine months. It was [ __ ] carnage. You couldn't get a [ __ ] You couldn't get a loan from a bank. And if you tried to raise money or [ __ ] find an investor, people would [ __ ] laugh you off [ __ ] stage. And the benefit of coming up at that time, you had to learn how to hustle. Desperation is the father of innovation. We couldn't go out there and like, "Oh, I need to raise money." That whole concept of thinking that you need money, thinking that you need investors, thinking that there is anything that you need that you don't already have is [ __ ] weakness. It's [ __ ] lazy. It's Exactly. How do we say that at the same time? It's [ __ ] lazy. You get out there, what you need is some god damn hustle and some work ethic and some creativity. There are so many different hustles that I and he can [ __ ] teach you that you can start with zero dollars today. You go out there, you get told to [ __ ] yourself so many times, but you're so certain that you understand the value of the four-wheeler, the dirt bike, the car, the motorcycle, whatever it is, that you're you're at this price point, you know it's worth this, you sell it for this, but then you tie it up in a purchase and sales agreement and tell them, "Okay, I got to go to the bank. Hey, listen, you know, I got a little slow down in the bank shit." And then you [ __ ] turn around and relist it and you make a little bit more money, but you're still selling it for below what the value is for a quick turn and a quick sale. You don't need a [ __ ] dollar to do that. Going out, knocking doors, getting smart, access to information on how to [ __ ] learn how to roof. I'm not telling you to do the roofing. I'm telling you need to know enough to have a conversation about roofing and sell a roof. And then go out and talk to the subcontractors and sell the contract. Hey, listen, I got this roof. I got it at this much a square. [music] It's a $15,000 job. I'll sell you the job for 13,000. Bang. You making your two right off the top. You do it for 13, I sold it for 15, I made two grand, two Gs, just off flipping the paper. You guys don't know about that flipping the paper game. You can flip paper on a lot of [ __ ] Here's the other thing you can do. Real estate wholesaling. Going out, signing up real estate deals. Single family home, commercial real estate, or you can do it in real estate developing. You go out and get a property get that has special permitting or zoning rights that the owner has no [ __ ] clue about after you've done the research. Get that thing tied up with a purchase and sales agreement. I've made millions of dollars like this selling real estate that I never [ __ ] owned. So, if you're not winning in 2026, it is your [ __ ] fault, guys. If you think that the path to [ __ ] making money and success is, well, let me just go to my job and be a good doobie. Start time's at 9:00. I'm going to be here at 8:45 every day. They're going to take notice and I'm going to get to my annual review and hopefully I can get that that 4% raise this year. Might get a watch one day. What you need to understand is that if you're in your heart a nine-to-fiver, if you don't want the stress, if you don't have the ambition, you're cool with a Thursday night kickball league and drinking [ __ ] microbrews with your boys watching a football game on Sunday, God bless you. I'm just saying that we aren't the same. And there's a lot of people that are going to see this [ __ ] video that also aren't the same. And they're stuck in this prison knowing they want more. They wake up every day going, "Fuck, I hate this [ __ ] I want more for myself." That's the person that we're speaking to. And that person has absolutely everything they need at their fingertips, yet they probably [music] don't [ __ ] know it. This is why you're actually lucky. I graduated in 2009. You graduated in what? Construction management. College? >> From college. >> You went to a fancy college? >> I did on a football scholarship. >> to college. And you know what it got me? Digging [ __ ] ditches for a company named Austin Bridge & Road in 2009. And you know what? It is the best thing that ever happened to me. And I think about this when I think about people coming out of college right now. All your jobs are about to get wrecked by AI. Everything that you've ever been told about going to college and the job that you're going to get after it is [ __ ] much like it was for me. But here's the good news. [music] We are at the top top top and we are going to have a correction at some point soon. It's bad, it's going to get worse, but guess what? You get to ride that wave all the way up because you [music] know what would suck? To graduate into a great economy and then end up in a situation where you're in a great economy, but you don't know [ __ ] about how [music] to make money. So, if you just start learning now, hustling now, you can ride that wave straight up, which is the way I did cuz I finished college, we was at the bottom. And so, I got to ride that thing straight [music] up to the top. I wouldn't trade that for anything. So, good. Your life sucks? [ __ ] good. That is good news. >> Here's how you absolutely know that everything they taught you about college and corporate career and all this stuff is a [ __ ] scam. I dropped out of high school in the [ __ ] 10th grade, 15 years old. I still don't have a GED. I have not been in a classroom since I was 15 years old and I've made hundreds of millions of dollars. The teacher said, "You're going to be a loser for the rest of your life. You're not going to college. You dropped out of high school. You're not going to make it." Well, that's not exactly what happened now, is it? You got a decision to make. You can either go the internet route and the AI route, and we all know who to go to for that, our boys, or you can go real world, in real life, businesses that are boring but cash flow [music] like a [ __ ] All the world's talent right now is taking it to the internet. If you are ambitious and a young man and you want to make a bunch of money, wouldn't it make a lot of sense to go towards the other side of the divide and compete against [ __ ] old boomers that don't know [ __ ] about the internet, that are tired, [snorts] that want to get out, that everybody your age doesn't want to get their hands dirty at all, and just take that [ __ ] money? It's almost free. I argue that you have a better shot doing a business that does not involve AI, like a plumbing business, than you would actually doing an internet business because of the competition, because of AI. I think you'll own it for yourself. You can own a whole industry in your town and your biggest competition is an old man who wants to get out, but his son doesn't want it. Think about your odds then. And let me call out another lie that most of you were told, which is this. Monetize your passions. Listen. [ __ ] Make money, build a business, put in the 10 years to make a cash flowing company that's making millions of dollars and live the rest of your life doing whatever the [ __ ] you want to do. That's what you need to be passionate about. You know what I'm passionate about? Here's my passions. When my father got ill, I was able to get him the best doctors for my dad. When he needed to get retired, I was able to retire him. I was passionate when I pulled up to his house with a brand new pickup truck, had the keys to that truck, beeped the horn, he came out confused like, "What are you doing here? What's this new truck?" And I just threw him the keys. One of the coolest [ __ ] days of my life. I was passionate about that. Finding if you're passionate about your hobby, finding a way to monetize that, if you can, wonderful, but it may not be the path forward on how to live the life that you want to live. You want to be financially free, [music] geographical freedom, be able to move around the world, connect and network with brothers, other successful people that are on the same [ __ ] mission and take care of your family, really. That's the only thing that matters. It doesn't have to be cute. It can be right down the You can do it with just blocking and tackling with a little bit of grit. And I'll argue that going that route is actually easier at this point. Cuz nobody wants to touch it. I don't think people will truly misunderstand this, too. The difference between zero to 1 million is actually a bigger life change than zero to 100, maybe. You go from having to worry about swiping your card and worry about like, "Can I Can I afford this dinner? Can I take a girl on a date?" To like not worrying about that [ __ ] at all anymore. The biggest freedom I think is from zero to a million. That first million dollars a year that you make, 20,000 dollars a week coming in, means that you're eating where you want [music] to eat, you're living where you want to live, you're driving where you want to drive, you're not worried about bills, you're taking care of your people. It doesn't mean that you own a jet, you don't own a boat yet. It's probably premature to spend money on super high luxury goods, but your [ __ ] lifestyle is amazing. >> free. >> You are free. I'll never forget the first time I had a million dollars in the bank account. I looked at it on my phone. [music] Of course, I screenshotted it. I called my dad and I told him. And then I went right back to work. >> It's funny, the first time I made a million dollars, I called my dad, too. It's I just wanted to call my dad. I'm sure [music] your dad was unbelievably proud of you and my dad was unbelievably proud of me. It's same thing, I went right I didn't didn't take a day off. >> Why is starting a business the right answer [music] for most people who are ambitious? Because it takes the governor off. You're not trapped in this corporate structure. You have to bet [music] on yourself. You have to bet on yourself and you get to bet on yourself. The sky is the limit. I started, guys, with nothing. Justin, he started with nothing. And I was able to build a business, the one that I sold made a million dollars a month, not a year, a million dollars a month. I sold that business for an enterprise valuation of 115 million dollars. And I did [music] that without a college education, starting with no money, no resources, and I started the business in the middle of the Great Recession in 2008. The sweet spot is building a business, starting as a solopreneur, getting in and trading your time for money, but betting on yourself, eventually hiring your first employee, your second employee, [music] your third employee, delegating the tasks that you're not good at or other [music] people could do better or you don't like to do, scaling it, growing it, and eventually [music] building the business that it is making money and you're able to work on the business, [music] not in the business. So, now you've accomplished two things, financial freedom. Your expenses [music] are covered by the money coming in and freedom of time. In the beginning, you're not going to have freedom of time. The first focus is make the money. After you make the money, you implement systems [music] and processes and leaders into the company >> yourself from those roles. >> Start firing yourself from those roles and all of a sudden, now you own a cash flowing asset called your company and you get to come down here and live in sunny Miami, Florida with Justin and [music] I while your businesses are making money because you sacrificed, you dedicated, you took the risk, you took the arrows in your back, you let the people from your hometown laugh at you. You [ __ ] took the hate, you took the criticism, you made that decision and said, "Fuck this. Not me. I'm going all in. I'm not living this boring, mundane, mediocre life." And you know what they're going to tell you when that happens? It must be nice. And you know what you ought to say back? It is. >> You're [ __ ] right, it is. >> right. [laughter] Why do you care? You're out here with your sales out there to teach these people [music] for free on YouTube right now. >> I get jumped at answer real quick. Making money, getting assets, buying cool [ __ ] it's fun. For a little while. >> For a little while. Little while. And the shine wears off it. You're going to get that Lambo, your first Lambo, you're going to get your first dope place to live, you're going to get the your watches, you're going to get all this stuff, right? And it's going to be exciting and then the shine wears off. Nothing, absolutely nothing will ever [music] bring as much value to a man's life than being useful and helpful to other men. Yeah. It is the coolest accomplishments of in my life and when I get messages or I see people in the street and they tell me that they changed their life because of me. I inspired them, [music] they started the business. That stuff is just so much more meaningful and moving than [music] just staying focused on me and making more money. Making money like that's gay. Right. The only way I know how to answer the question is actually what I say to people when they do stop me. I tell them two things. First thing I tell them [music] I love them. And the reason I love them is because of the second thing I tell them, which is there is no difference between you and I. That young man that's out there right now pushing to build his business and he's struggling, he's worried about how he's going to make payroll. That is me. We're just at different places in our journey, which is the second thing I tell them. So, if I can help somebody that I do not know, but is living the same life that I lived just at a different time in history, then how am I not inspired to help that [music] young man? He is me. There is no difference, really. The more of those guys I can help, >> [music] >> the better. Not just because it feels good for my heart, it's also a very good idea for me to be helping these young, ambitious men cuz you guess what? Who is my son going to need one day on a deal when I'm gone? Probably that young man that's now a grown man that I helped. So, it's not even fully charitable. No man ever achieved anything alone. It's always in a tribe, it's always in a group and that group generally has a creed. And so, if your creed is to hustle and create a life that you want, life that you love, to take care of the people that you love, whether you know them or not, you're being rewarded. And so, it's an easy decision for us to make, I believe. Yeah. I think. Uh. Uh. Uh.