Nate McKelvey Expected 9/11 to End His Business (Then Made $1M In A Week) - #13

Legends of Scale · May 20, 2026 · 24m

Today we talk with Nate McKelvey, founder and CEO of Bobos AI.

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00:00 Meet Nate McKelvey

01:06 Building Jets.com Before Google Existed

04:05 "I Maxed Every Credit Card I Had — and My Wife's"

04:55 Growing Too Fast (It Set Them Back a Full Year)

05:59 How Nate Helped Planet Fitness Go From 300 to 1,000 Locations

07:51 "I Owed My Client a Hundred Thousand Dollars"

11:48 "They Didn't Want Nate — They Wanted Arnold"

12:24 The Ceiling You Hit When You…