Taking Big Risks with Wade and Dustin Vugteveen

Dec 18, 2025 | Leadership, Management, Marketing, Peer Groups, Podcast Series: The Ultimate Landscape CEO

This is a replay of a previous episode featuring Wade and Dustin Vugteveen, owners of DeHamer Landscaping, a $10M+ landscaping firm based in Grandville, Michigan.

They do a mix of snow, maintenance, landscape and irrigation.

We discuss their history of startups, first with a baseball training business and then in retail.

We discuss how hard it was for them early on, and how difficult it is to grow a business as an entrepreneur.

These two have taken a series of risks over and over again, which has allowed them to scale their business quickly. Business is more of a “calling” for them as a people-first company.

You will enjoy stories and their ride.

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