KEENVILLE & COMPANY LLC
Keenville & Company LLC was started in September of 2023 by Adam Keen, a traveler and an economics graduate from Temple University, Japan Campus. Keenville & Company LLC precedes the closing of his previous eBay retail business a year earlier which was also called Keenville & Company LLC. “I can’t say I loved owning an eBay store that was stocked with products that had no rhyme or reason; It was a lot of work sorting through pallets and creating a listing for each one-off product.” Later, Adam would unintentionally find himself back in eCommerce but this time with his own brand and products, and business and eCommerce experience. While launching his business a friend saw the website of his product and wanted one for his own business. Adam gathered that he was good at building websites and graphic design thus he opened a new branch at Keenville & Company LLC. Find out more about his website and design services here.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Adam W. Keen
“I aim that my passion is obvious in everything I do” – Keen
Hey, my name is Adam. I’m a small guy surrounded by big people and I can be a quiet observer in a complicated world. I have limited time, resources, health, and capabilities, like us all, but I’m trying to do my best to maximize what I have. Born into a loving middle-class Christian family in Derby, Kansas, USA, I’ve had what people across the world can only dream about, loving and financially well-off parents and over 18 years of exceptional education. I do not earn these things based on my own merits (i.e. birth-parents, birthplace, nationality, race, ect.) and for that I am lucky. Now, it is my responsibility to make something of myself, to take all that I’ve been given and excel.
Since Birth
Adam is in a unique position with a unique set of life experiences. He started pulling up his pants [literally] at age 15. He got a part-time job, took college classes in high school, and started investing in the stock market. After graduation, he got a job as a summer camp counselor but was later fired. Then, things changed a lot. His dad accepted an engineering job in Japan and Adam went with him. He lived with his dad in Nagoya for about a year, where he found a manual-labor job working one-on-one with his employer who coincidentally owned a gym. He taught him things like every tool has its purpose and you’ll save yourself time, effort, and headache if you use the right tool. Anyways, Adam needed to do something with his life because the stock-market thing wasn’t working. So, he went to a university in Tokyo and studied economics. But, his experience there was unique.
Homelessness and Cycling
There, he chose to be homeless for 550 days while going to school and working over 28-hour weeks. After graduating with a bachelor’s he returned to his mom’s house in Indiana. He stayed there for a few months before one day he decided to go to his birthplace where he still had family and friends. So he got on his road bike with an old boxy hiking backpack and road 790 miles, across 13 days, to Kansas… he did not return to Indiana on his bike.
Business Venture
A month later, he started living with his dad in Valparaiso, Indiana. There, he started his own resale business called “Keenville & Company” which specialized in the resale of an assortment of returned and liquidized merchandise. He’d go to a distribution center 150 miles away and return with a U-Haul trailer full of inventory that he bought in auctions.
The Pilgrimage
Then, he got the idea to bike to Argentina. So, he sold what remained in his inventory in a garage sale, and started off on a life-changing path. As of early 2023, he has made it as far south as the southern border of Colombia.
Keen is still on a mission to reach southern Argentina with his bicycle and 55L hiking backpack. Although, he says it’s just taking way longer than expected, especially since he started Keenville & Company LLC. But he says he looks forward to continuing his pilgrimage to learn more about himself, people, and what people do. Stay tuned.