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Kirk and Jacob McKinney bought a $4,000 pickup truck in 2021 and turned it into a $3 million junk removal business — Junk Teens — while still in high school. No funding, no tech platform, no professional crew. Just two brothers, local teens, and a refusal to dump everything in a landfill.

They hit $120,000 in year one with a single truck, rebranded to Junk Teens in 2022, and now run 8 dump trucks with over 35 people doing 40–50 jobs a day. In this episode, the McKinney brothers break down how they use GoHighLevel + Jobber and built a custom internal app to manage hundreds of daily leads, why their first $600,000 came from zero paid ads, how repurposing and donating items instead of dumping became a competitive edge,  ...