Justus Shaw
Entrepreneur · Founder of Shaw's Coffee Cart · Nashville, TN
Took a coffee cart to $100K+ in 8 months. Still missing a high school diploma.
(About)
Justus Shaw is a 25-year-old entrepreneur who turned down a $126,000 scholarship at 17, bet on himself, and built a coffee company people line up for.
Originally from California, Justus moved to Tennessee and in 2025 turned a side hustle into Shaw's Coffee Cart, a premium mobile espresso and dirty soda bar serving weddings, corporate events, and celebrations across Nashville and Franklin. Coffee runs in the Shaw family, and his sisters helped him launch it.
The cart passed $100K in revenue within its first eight months, and Shaw now employs a team of six.
His path skipped the script: he left formal schooling after the 9th grade, and at 17 turned down a $126,000 university scholarship. Since then he has been a code developer building apps for the payment software company Zulio, founded the media design business Designs, flown commercial real estate shoots for Bluejay Drones, hosted the Justus Shaw Podcast, and spent nearly a decade in his band, Shaw.
“It's maybe even a healthy pressure, like well, what's my thing?”— to The Wall Street Journal
- $100K+
- Revenue in 8 months
- 6
- Employees
- $126K
- Scholarship turned down at 17
- 111M+
- Views on one video
Work(07)
- 01Shaw's Coffee CartFounder2025 — Now
- 02DesignsFounder & Creative Director2020 — Now
- 03Provident Payments Central LLCSpecialist2023 — 2025
- 04ZulioCode Developer · Payment software
- 05Justus Shaw PodcastFounder & Host2024
- 06Bluejay DronesCommercial Real Estate Drone Photographer2018 — 2020
- 07ShawBand member2015 — 2024
(The flagship)
Shaw's Coffee Cart
A mobile espresso and dirty soda bar for weddings, birthdays, corporate events, and the moments people remember. Founded in 2025, it went from weekend side hustle to full-time business in its first year and passed $100K in eight months.
→ shawscoffeecart.com → @shawscoffeecartPress(03)
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