Spark Tank Champion: Marcus Paytee’s Electric Legacy
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Tuesday, January 13
7:00 a.m.
Spark Thomasville Executive Director
Spark truth: when you refuse to quit, you build more than a business—you build a legacy. ⚡
Marcus Paytee just won first place at Spark Tank 2025 with Power 4 Ease Electric (power4easeelectric.com). But his real victory? Creating something his kids can inherit.
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The Setback That Built Character 💔
Four years into his electrical career, Marcus drove three hours to Alabama for his master electrician test. Eight grueling hours later, they told him he failed.
“That was one of the most heartbreaking situations I had to deal with up to that point,” Marcus admits. “To have that drive two to three hours, take an eight-hour test, and they tell you at the end that you failed... and then have to take that two to three hour drive home by myself.”
But Marcus had learned a powerful lesson from his dad years earlier—when he’d wanted to quit track after already giving up basketball. His dad’s words stuck with him: “You can’t give up everything in life.”
Marcus took that to heart and made it his own principle: “When I start something, I finish it.”
He locked himself in a room with study books for a year—2-3 hours every day. No TV time. Just study time. When he returned to Alabama? He passed.
How Spark Lit the Path 🔥
Power 4 Ease started as weekend work—testing the market, building clientele. Then Spark Thomasville entered the picture.
“I learned a lot about creating a business plan and making structure for your business before you actually jump into it,” Marcus explains. “Banking, accounting, financials—basically everything you need to know about business.”
Spark connected him with banking professionals, accountants, legal experts, and his coach Terry Howell—a retired entrepreneur who’s “been there.”
The result? Spark Tank 2025 champion and a thriving residential and commercial electrical business.
Why Legacy Beats Money 👨👩👧👦
What drives a man to risk a stable county job for entrepreneurship?
“It’s really not about money,” Marcus says. “It’s about having a legacy. If you have a legacy, the money will come with the legacy.”
His vision: build Power 4 Ease, support his wife’s daycare dream, and create opportunities so his kids have a leg up when they reach his age.
“I had a good childhood growing up, but there’s levels to where my kids have an even better childhood than I had.”
Connect with Marcus: power4easeelectric.com
What dream are you putting off because it feels too hard? Remember Marcus’s lesson: You can’t give up everything in life. 💪
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