Name: Boy, 11, Cried After His First Business Rejection — Then He Turned “No” Into a Booming Trash Bin Cleaning Business
Uploaded: 2026-08-15T11:15:00.132Z
Duration: 1 min 9 s
Channel: The Bright Story
Description: At just 11 years old, Ashton Meyer turned his first painful business rejection into motivation to build a thriving trash-bin cleaning service with dozens of customers. As his business and social-media following grow, Ashton is learning that persistence, hard work and the courage to keep knocking can be more valuable than any single “yes.”

Boy, 11, Cried After His First Business Rejection — Then He Turned “No” Into a Booming Trash Bin Cleaning Business