TeenClean

I founded TeenClean in Key Biscayne in ninth grade, offering pressure washing and window cleaning. I knocked on 500 doors to find customers and recruited around 20 neighborhood students as subcontractors.

Getting the equipment to a job was its own engineering problem: we weren’t old enough to drive. I designed and built wagons that attached to e-bikes, then made additional units for friends working with me so we could carry the equipment around the neighborhood.

I ran the customer outreach, equipment logistics, and coordination between jobs. It was an early experience of learning how to build something and persuade someone to pay for it.