- July 7, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Tennessee walk-on wide receiver Grant Frerking, the founder and CEO of Atlanta-based Metro Straw Ground Cover, gives his perspective on the new name, image and likeness rules in college athletics during an appearance on The Paul Finebaum Show on SEC Network:
ON DEVELOPING HIS BUSINESS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS
“We go back to 2015. I’m a high school student. I go to a private school just northwest of Atlanta, the Wesleyan School, an institution that taught me entrepreneurship, that taught me business, taught me professional skills. And I sat there, and I came to my dad one day and said you know what dad, why won’t they let me have a real job? I was sitting there at 15 years old. He said you know what son, you can do your own thing and you cane be an entrepreneur and go do your own thing. And I was 15 years old … and I started a pine straw and mulch company out of Atlanta, which doesn’t seem like much. But it’s an industry where there’s…
