Aaron Harper

Well, thanks for having me on.

I'm excited to be here and talking with you today.

Yeah, I'm from Southern California.

I didn't grow up wanting to be in the franchise industry.

In fact, I didn't even know what that meant.

I actually wanted to be like a Hollywood agent.

So I went to Hollywood and I, after college, I literally worked in like at the agencies and like thought I wanted to like be Ari Gold.

If you've watched Entourage.

It's so good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I thought I wanted to be Ari Gold.

And then I was like, wait, this is like a miserable existence and I don't enjoy this at all.

So I had a friend that worked in franchise development and he goes, you should get into franchise development.

And I was like, what's that?

You know, I think like many people who hear the word franchise, they think McDonald's, Wendy's, Chick-fil-A.

And I was like, dude, I don't really want to like build franchises.

fast food joints and he's like no like that's not what i do at all and and i was like well what is it and he goes well you know 1-800-GOT-JUNK is a franchise and two men in a truck is a franchise and mr rooter is a franchise and chem dry is a franchise and i was like oh and then i didn't know that business like franchisees were independent business owners like i had no idea

And I didn't know that they owned a hundred percent of their locations that they bought.

Like, so like for, I didn't know if McDonald's wasn't like corporate, it's like an actual person who owns McDonald's.