Name
Nick Roskam
Age
38
Company/Organization
Paw Paw Rentals
What Does Your Company/Organization Do?
We help homeowners and businesses accomplish construction projects, home remodels, lawn maintenance and throw events.
Education
Bachelors of Electronic Business Design from WMU
Accomplishments
I haven’t accomplished anything too noteworthy yet.
What else do you hope to accomplish by the age of 40?
Only time will tell.
Current City
Sister Lakes
Place You Were Born
Harbor Beach, MI
What was your first job?
Dishwasher at a rib joint.
What’s the best advice you ever got?
Sell the mountain range, not the goat.
Who inspires you most?
I dont have a single person but tend to take a lot of tidbits from a lot of different people.
That one thing about you we’d be most surprised to learn.
That I can go from talking about AI and software development in the morning, then move to bobcats, trenchers and events in the afternoon.
What do you love to do in your downtime?
Play with my son Mason, projects around my yard and boating up and down the west coast of Michigan.
What book are you reading now?
I just finished Good to Great
Volunteer activity you love the most.
Supporting a wide variety of Paw Paw community organizations through Paw Paw Rentals
What motivates you to give back to your community?
Community and business is a symbiotic ecosystem that both need each other to thrive and grow.
What Superpower would you most love to have?
Photographic memory
What would you like to leave behind as your legacy once you are gone?
That I took risks to build things that lasted.
What does the honor of being named to the 40 Under 40 most mean to you?
Im flattered just to have been nominated. I’ve never approached my career with awards and recognition in mind. Knowing a good friend saw the value in that and submitted my name means a lot to me.
