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Businesses founded since 2019, ranked by revenue
Junk removal at $2.5 million, a dumpster lead site at $2.1 million, and a cleaning company started with $2,000. The newest entries in the database, with the caveat on each figure.
Our ranking of the longest-running businesses covered the owners who have been at it ten years or more. This page goes to the other end: the nine entries with a documented founding year of 2019 or later, ranked by the most recent revenue figure on each, largest first. Five of the nine started in 2019 or 2020.
Figures are as reported. Two are monthly figures we have multiplied by twelve and one is the database's own estimate, and each is labeled. Two owners took over existing businesses in this period and are listed separately below, because their revenue was there before they arrived.
Started with $6,000 while working construction and made $10,000 in month one. UpFlip reports $2.5 million a year; the figure is owner-claimed and the coverage does not separate revenue from take-home.
Year-two revenue on about $26,000 of advertising, per figures he shared on My First Million. Still described as $2 million-plus in 2026. Owns no dumpsters; haulers keep 80 to 85 percent of each job.
Up to $200,000 a month at peak and about $30,000 in winter, per the UpFlip podcast. The annual figure is the database's estimate, not hers. The founding year comes from separate press coverage that names the founder differently.
An America's Swimming Pool Company franchise opened in Frisco in June 2019. Annual revenue per UpFlip's feature; revenue, not take-home.
First season about $35,000 from a Ford Fusion. Now books more than $800,000 in a season of roughly two months.
Began washing laundry through SudShare in 2019 and earned $46,000 from it in 2022. Her 40-machine store brings in about $24,000 a month, per CNBC Make It, annualised here.
First full year, per The Side Hustle Show, with $100,000 booked in the first nine months. No later figure is on record.
2025 revenue on roughly $82,000 of operating earnings, per documents reviewed by CNBC Make It. His entry records $85,000 by mid-July 2026.
Started in July 2023 with her last $2,000. $10,000 a month as of October 2024, per CNBC Make It, annualised here.
Not ranked
Ryan McCoy bought the Dallas Scoop Soldiers territory in 2019, after running it as an employee for two years, and passed 1,100 clients and $900,000 within a year. Nathan Lenahan bought Bart's Heating and Air in 2021 for $400,000 when it did about $1.2 million. Both are on our list of owners who bought instead of building. Alan Tursunbaev and Brannon Fowler may belong here, but neither entry has a founding year on record.
What the order shows
The top three carry the most caveats. Landwehr's $2.5 million is owner-claimed and may mix revenue with take-home. Hecht's $2.1 million is a lead business that owns no equipment and passes most of each job to haulers. Hatch's $1.2 million is our estimate from a peak month and a winter month. The best-documented large figure in the list is the Davises' $851,000, and that is a franchise with a national brand behind it. Our guide to reading a revenue figure covers each of these problems.
Six of the nine started small or kept a day job. Ortiz used her last $2,000, Landwehr $6,000, Haskell about $10 for his first locker and Hunsaker a sedan and a ladder, while Sanya and Gallagher built theirs after work. Hecht's and Hatch's entries give no starting figure, and the Davises bought a franchise. The startup cost ladder has the full set.
Young does not mean small. Landwehr and Hecht both sit in the top ten of the database by reported revenue, and the revenue ranking shows where each sits among all 33 entries. Two of the nine started in 2020, which our piece on what bad economies did to these businesses looks at more closely. This site is one of SideRoad's weekly builds, and Ortiz's entry is due an annual update.
Common questions
What is the largest boring business started since 2019?
By reported revenue, Kyle Landwehr's junk removal company, founded in 2020, at $2.5 million a year per UpFlip. The figure is owner-claimed. Ian Hecht's dumpster rental lead business, launched in 2021, follows at $2.1 million in its second year.
How much can a new cleaning business make in its first years?
Haley Gallagher's commercial cleaning company turned over $170,000 in its first full year. Anna-Marie Ortiz's residential cleaning business, started in July 2023 with $2,000, was bringing in $10,000 a month by October 2024.
Why are Ryan McCoy and Nathan Lenahan not in this ranking?
Both took over businesses that already existed. McCoy bought a Scoop Soldiers territory he had run as an employee, and Lenahan bought an HVAC company doing about $1.2 million. They appear in the ranking of owners who bought instead of building.
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