- December 18, 2025
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Michael Grothe's entrepreneurial family had been in the oil and gas delivery business for 100 years by the 1980s, when he was a teenager.
But the small family business in central Pennsylvania was essentially killed when the corporate parent that oversaw it went through a restructuring process. The collapse scarred Grothe. “I never thought I would be in business for myself,” Grothe says.
It took 20 years, but the recession altered those plans.
