To start a business with your high school buddies and watch sales skyrocket in a few years sounds like one of those pipe dreams from a movie.
For six Bay Port High School graduates, it’s not a dream or a movie. It’s a driveshaft and power transmission business called AG Drives.
Robby Burton Jr. and Zach Earley in 2024 took ownership of AG Drives from Burton’s grandfather and changed it from a parts business to one that produces custom driveshafts, driveline components and hardware. They started out in one industrial suite at the Greater Green Bay Chamber’s Startup Hub on the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College campus and now occupy four spaces…