Before his streetwear brand BrownMill took off, Justis Pitt-Goodson designed, sewed and sold his own bow ties to his middle school peers.
In high school, Pitt-Goodson and two friends built the idea for the streetwear brand.
The company attracts NBA players as customers and brought in $327,000 in revenue last year, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.
Courtesy of Justis Pitt-GoodsonAfter befriending his two future business partners, Taha Shimou and Kwaku Agyemang, in high school, Pitt-Goodson studied business management at Rutgers University-Newark.
The brand brought in $86,000 in 2020, enabling the founders to put down a $7,000 deposit on a Newark storefront that opened in June 2021.