Brian Scudamore

I'm now at $20,000 per top.

Five and six million.

He is hell-bent on global domination.

Well, it was 27 years ago, been more than half my life.

I saw a beat-up old pickup truck at a McDonald's drive-thru of all places.

Had to find a way to pay for college, never finished high school, and so my parents weren't going to give me any funding.

And I saw this beat-up old truck that said Marks Hauling on the side, and I thought, ah, there's my ticket.

Went and bought a junk truck, and a week later had a business.

Off I went, building a 1-800-GOT-JUNK into what is now a quarter of a billion dollar business, and we're scaling off.

All our brands, the three great brands you mentioned, which are all in the home service world, all based on that same 1-800-GOT-JUNK model of exceptional customer experience.

1989 took 10 years to build and scale one operation to a million dollar business and then realized I had something that was a bit of a formula for success.

I franchised it.

and that's when things really started to take off.

First year, I don't know my revenue.

I mean, I remember it was very small.

Like $6?

Yeah, something like that, 52 cents.

I remember I made $1,700 in profit.

That was the number I look back on.

But when I dropped out of university four years into the business, that year I did $100,000.