16: From Getting Laid Off to Building 4 Multi-Million Dollar Companies — Interview with Rohan Gilkes

In this episode, we have a super special guest - Rohan Gilkes, Founder of Launch27 and MaidsInBlack.

After 10 years working in corporate, Rohan got laid off from his banking job and starting a local cleaning company on a whim just to find some extra cash to afford his car payment. After scaling the business to over $20,000 in PROFIT per month within 8 months, Rohan decide to posted his story on a Reddit forum, which inspired thousands of people to start their own local business (including Neel).

Rohan's fully-remote local business currently generates millions of dollars in annual revenue with less than 1 hour of work per month. In addition to the cleaning business, he also started and recently sold a software company he founded.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Rohan's origin story and how he came across the entrepreneur path
• Scaling his business and how he managed to grow so quickly
• Rohan's definition of "success" as an entrepreneur and goals now

You can find out more about Rohan here:

https://www.rohangilkes.com/

https://twitter.com/rohangilkes