The brothers made the right call by skipping college!!!

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Two brothers skipped college to start a pickleball company before the game was cool. They cashed in on the pandemic boom and expect 9 figures in revenue in 2026.
Rob and Mike Barnes, along with their father Jim, founded Selkirk Sport in 2014 in Idaho, sacrificing college and early careers to build a top pickleball brand. By targeting a "senior sport" before it went mainstream, they leveraged the pandemic’s, explosive popularity to establish industry leadership, projecting over $100 million in revenue for 2026

I took these photos recently and it's still going strong: