At 16, Jacob Irving from Montgomery, Texas, has achieved an incredible feat by starting his own gourmet hotdog truck business, after garnering inspiration from his grandfather.
“I knew that I wanted to do something entrepreneurial and I knew I wanted to do it soon,” Irving told The Epoch Times.
Jacob and his grandpa trying to cook when he was very little. (Courtesy of Jacob Irving)
The teen was determined that he didn’t want to wait and spend “a million dollars” in attending college and a few years on a degree that he wouldn’t use. So young Irving decided to start something with a low overhead and cheap startup cost: Pop Pop’s Dandy Dog….