Teen Duo Turns Trash into a 7-Figure Junk-Removal Empire
Brothers Kirk and Jacob McKinney turned a hobby of salvaging speaker parts into Junk Teens, a junk-removal service that started with a $4,000 pickup and a single job in 2021. After reinvesting profits and expanding to a dump truck, they scaled to five trucks, a 25-person staff, and multiple markets (Norwood, Cape Cod, the North Shore, Rhode Island), achieving nearly seven figures in 2023 (and $3M in 2025) with projected revenue above $5M in 2026. They differentiate through speed, strong communication, and branding around their teenage hustle, leveraging social media to recruit and grow their workforce.
