He Scaled an Unconventional Business to $5 Million with Zero Paid Marketing
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
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🗓️ 23 June 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Pineda sits down with Austin Boyd to explore how Austin built a $5M+ custom apparel business from his parents' garage through faith, relentless sales, networking, and strategic growth, while sharing the lessons that helped him scale.
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https://www.instagram.com/austinboydlasvegas/
https://aliveprintshop.com/
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Chapters:
00:00 - $5M Print Business
1:05 - From High School Hustle
7:01 - Leaving College to Build
13:28 - First Shop & Breakthrough
16:28 - Learning Sales & Scaling
19:31 - Surviving the COVID Crash
21:21 - Growing to 40 Employees
23:50 - Networking Over Cold Calling
25:00 - How M19 Began
34:42 - Craziest Client Projects
38:20 - Building a National Print Company
43:15 - Leadership & Company Culture
48:10 - Hiring, Systems & Delegation
54:05 - Faith, Business & Purpose
1:00:45 - Final Entrepreneur Advice
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I've said that I want to have real business owners on doing businesses that you don't hear about every single day on the internet. |
| 0:05.7 | And this guy fits that mold. |
| 0:07.2 | Last year, they did over $5 million doing print work, meaning they make clothing and apparel and promotional materials for businesses, including my own. |
| 0:17.4 | We use them a ton for all of the different events that we do with M19 and my other |
| 0:21.9 | companies. Today I've got Austin Boyd out of Las Vegas. What's up, bro? What's up, Ryan? There we go. Today we also have the bald, headed co-host, Brian DeVilla. I got some of his swag on. Yeah, yeah, Austin, you produced that shirt. Thank you, thank you. It's pretty good. It's great. Love it. Yeah. So people have always asked me, |
| 0:39.2 | they're like, dude, where do you guys get your stuff made? Like, we love the gear. People are always asking |
| 0:43.2 | for more M19 gear, too. And I always tell them, it's this guy out here in Vegas. And, you know, |
| 0:50.5 | it's interesting just even getting to know you over the years like seeing the business grow. |
| 0:54.3 | I'm like, dude, you guys said five million plus just like making shirts and putting logos on things. |
| 1:00.2 | Like there's a lot of ways to make money in this world. |
| 1:03.3 | How'd you get in that business? |
| 1:05.2 | Dude, it started in 10th grade, man. |
| 1:07.6 | I worked for my parents' construction company all summer in Vegas, which was the most motivating thing in the whole world because I was like, I'm not going to be in construction before. Like two summers working. And then I bought money, you know, bought some t-shirts at the mall. And I was like, oh, this is so cool. And I'm walking through the same high school halls that we went to same school. And this kid's wearing the same t-shirt as me. |
| 1:43.7 | And I'm like, this sucks. You know what I mean? Like, bro, anyone could just go to the mall and buy a t-shirt. I'm like, what if I just made one? So I just had this little idea and it got really excited. And I spent the next two years in high school literally trying to sell t-shirts to all the different clubs. Really? Just go track them all down. |
| 1:45.5 | And it was crazy. |
| 1:47.6 | My first year, we did $400 in sales. |
| 2:01.2 | Nice. I gave everybody their money back because I messed up every single t-shirt. Like, I was scared the whole school hated me because I, like, made some shirts. And then they would come back and the logo would be gone. They were like, what happened? Did you ever do like the tie-dye shirts? Dude, I did everything in the beginning. I was spray-painting with Kansas spray paint on T-shirts. Yeah, we were in high school. You would like, yeah, the spray paint shirts too. But like, you know, you would tie-dye shirts and like that was the thing. Yeah, the Tupperware. Yeah, tupperware. Yeah. Yeah. And I was doing that. |
| 2:18.2 | But for some reason, I just got really excited about it. |
| 2:31.4 | Um, it's funny. I was talking to Danny, uh, our friend Danny Bay about it. He was on the show earlier. And the, my, the year before my senior year, I just talked with him during the summer. And he's like, dude, you got to have a plan. |
| 2:32.6 | You got to really get this dialed in. |
| 2:34.1 | And so for the first time I, like, wrote a plan. |
| 2:37.0 | It came back and did like $50,000 in sales my senior year. |
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