Banks passed. His grandfather borrowed against the family home. A decade later, Justin Strickland’s stay-in-your-car service model processes more than 1.7 million oil changes a year - and offers a sharp lesson in scaling a boring business without making the customer wait.
Driven Brands has turned a scattered chore - keeping a car alive - into a portfolio of familiar local shops backed by one shared machine. Its next chapter depends on making that machine simpler, faster and more disciplined.