Grassroots Scaling with Bryan Clayton

Bryan Clayton is the CEO and Co-Founder of GreenPal, an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Bryan has been in the lawn care industry his entire working life starting with mowing neighbor’s lawns in high school to ultimately founding Peach Tree Inc, a market leading landscape company in the southeast and growing the firm to over 125 employees. In 2013 he navigated the successful acquisition of Peach Tree to Landscapes USA a national provider of commercial landscape services.  On this episode, Bryan and I discuss the ins and outs of GreenPal, how he built a trustworthy brand, how he was able to scale, and much more.