Two kids, a bucket, and a dream.
We are 16. We go to Saint Ignatius College Preparatory. We sit in the same classrooms, take the same tests, and stress over the same college apps as every other sophomore in San Francisco.
But when the last bell rings, we are not heading home to scroll on our phones. We are loading up a van with water tanks, generators, and pro-grade products — because we have a dream bigger than homework.
“One day we want to be entrepreneurs. Not because it sounds cool on a college essay — because we actually want to build something that matters.”
We both come from families of hard workers. Our parents built things from scratch — small businesses, trades, careers against odds. They taught us that nothing good comes without sweat, patience, and showing up even when you do not feel like it.
So we started small. A bucket, two sponges, and a driveway in the Presidio. We knocked on neighbors’ doors, got laughed at, got our first yes — and then our second. Every car we touched taught us something new: about paint, about people, and about what it means to earn trust.
Presidio Pristine is not just a detailing company to us. It is our first chapter. The place we learn how to run a real business, how to talk to clients, how to fix mistakes, and how to deliver work so good that people cannot help but tell their friends.
We are not here to be the cheapest. We are here to be the best — and to prove that a couple of 16-year-olds with discipline, a dream, and a lot of elbow grease can build something worth remembering.