John Speed: Building a $13M Pest Control Company From Scratch (in Hawaii)
In this episode, Dan sits down with John Speed, owner and president of Kilauea Pest Control. John founded Kilauea in 2002 with his wife Jennifer and built it from the ground up into one of the largest pest control companies in the country, projected to do $13 million this year with a team of more than 100 across Oahu, Maui, and Molokai. Kilauea is the only local Hawaii based company ever ranked on the PCT Top 100.John shares what it takes to build a pest control company in Hawaii, from the brutal cost of living to why recruiting operators from the mainland almost never sticks. He walks…
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