In 2024 I started a vending machine business from zero — self-funded, while working full time. No shortcuts. No hype. Just the same discipline the game taught me, applied to building something real.
Every professional athlete faces the same question eventually: what happens when the career is over? I didn't want to wait to find out. While still competing, I started asking how I could apply the same discipline, focus, and work ethic that made me a professional athlete to building something that would last.
Vending wasn't glamorous. But that's exactly why I chose it. No hype, no shortcuts, no algorithm chasing. Just a real business with real numbers — machines, locations, margins, and operators. I wanted to prove that the principles the game teaches you work everywhere.
Now I'm building it publicly. The real revenue, the real mistakes, the real lessons. Because that's what I would have wanted when I was starting.
Founded 2024 · DMV Area · Building in Public
Startup costs, machine costs, location revenue, profit margins — I share what actually happened, not what sounds good.
What I got wrong, what surprised me, and what I'd do differently. The mistakes are where the real education lives.
From one machine to scaling — documenting every step of what it actually takes to build a sustainable vending business.
Being a professional athlete teaches you things no business school can. How to perform under pressure. How to bounce back from failure. How to trust the process when results aren't immediate. How to outwork the room even when no one is watching.
"The discipline that gets you on the pitch is the same discipline that builds a business. It's just repetition in a different form."
That's the thread running through everything I do. Wilson Vending isn't separate from my athletic identity — it's an extension of it.
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