No 146 FROM DOOR KNOCKERS TO BUG BUSTERS
Insects don’t respect business hours, so pest-control companies hire Slingshot to handle sales and service calls day and night. Co-founder and CEO Taylor Olson’s unusual odyssey from Mormon missionary to bug-bomb scheduler.
Taylor Olson → SLINGSHOT
Three-year growth 2,856.9% • 2017 revenue $3.4 million
OREM, UTAH • FOUNDED 2014
In Utah, we have this weird cottage industry of companies that sell pest-control services door-to-door. Typically, they employ young LDS [Latter-day Saint] people who are recently back from their missions, where they spent a couple of years knocking on doors every day. That develops a massive amount of muscle tissue for rejection.
I was 19 when my cousin got one of those pest-control
