Lessons in taking a neighborhood lawn service to multimillion-dollar company
David Perdue started his landscaping business after graduating from Houston High School in 2019. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
During his junior and senior years of high school, David Perdue worked part-time mowing lawns for a small landscaping business. That’s when he discovered a passion for working outdoors, beautifying landscapes and completing projects.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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