Justin Gilmore is an Atlanta-based entrepreneur and the founder of ATMMachines.com and Team Strategy.
He began building businesses long before he had much reason to believe he would be successful at it. After leaving school at 15, Justin educated himself through books, trial and error, and a long series of ideas that didn’t always work.
In his early twenties, he discovered an opportunity in an industry most people never think about: ATMs.
What started with cold calls, walking into local businesses, and building an ATM route around Atlanta eventually became ATMMachines.com. Founded in 2006, the company grew from a local operation into a business selling, placing, managing and processing ATMs across the United States.
Along the way, Justin learned that building the business was only part of the challenge. Scaling it required systems, people, partnerships and the willingness to keep rebuilding what had worked at a smaller level.
That lesson has shaped nearly everything he’s done since.