Nick Thompson, 29, founded shoe repair company Klean Kicks in March 2020. Last month, he totalled 10,000 cleans and is due to host his own stall at popular dance music festival Mint later this week. He hadn’t expected to become such a successful business owner. In fact, Nick was “disheartened” to hear he had been let go by his former employer. Nick had made the jump from events, where he had spent the majority of his time post-18, to recruitment, following a “change of heart”.
I've been doing probably 75 to 100 trainers plus a week now for the last year and a half. “It just felt like a really overwhelming moment to reach 10,000 cleans to be honest. I was proud - I built this up from nothing in a time where unfortunately some people lost their jobs and were trying to do everything to make ends meet. I had a bit of a lightbulb moment and kind of just ran with it really.