How Did This Dirty Job Make Tommy Mello a Billionaire?! (Video)
In this 20 August 2025 video, host Mike Rowe talks with Tommy Mello, who started painting garage doors for $100 each.
Today, he’s worth a billion dollars. To make matters worse, he’s just 43 years old, absurdly fit, and by all accounts respected and admired by everyone he meets, including the 700 people he currently employs at A1 Garage Doors.
I asked Tomy how he did it. Tommy told me. And when he finished, I was again reminded of the simple, undeniable fact that mastering a skill which is in demand and then working your butt off can still lead to something that looks an awful lot like prosperity.
https://youtu.be/m-jypjFLHtY
00:00 Coming Up
00:34 How Tommy Mello became a billionaire
10:00 Getting into the garage door business
15:42 Learning how to build a business
19:10 Service Titan’s impact
23:40 Tommy’s take on customer relationships
28:06 Tommy’s equity incentive program
32:00 Learning from Alex Epstein
36:33 Saving a life on the job
40:05 Being an essential service during the pandemic
47:38 Why you should give away your secrets
51:55 What fuels Tommy’s drive
55:45 Lessons from being a server
59:30 Advice to future tradesmen
01:03:05 Tommy’s podcast
01:06:41 Why Tommy always writes notes
01:09:15 Show outro
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