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Josh Herron

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
187 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

Yes, sir.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

Yeah, correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

And gosh, it was probably 2007.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

I was currently running a location at 1-800-GOT-JUNK in Kansas City.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

A guy who's now my business partner had taken over the operation, had bought it from the person I was working for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

And through that, he gave me an opportunity to buy into the franchise system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

And then we also bought another franchise called OxyFresh Carpet Cleaning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

And that was kind of my first...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

Like a real entrepreneurial day where we signed the papers in Denver, Colorado.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

Unfortunately, that one didn't quite work out for us like we wanted to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

But, you know, during that period of time, like you're just going through the process in your mind, deciding you want to be your own boss.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

And like at some point you everybody has the kind of aspirations that they're going to make it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

I would assume everybody in business has aspirations that they want to work for some big conglomerate corporation and rise the ranks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

And for me, I realized that we could do our own thing and be equally successful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

So that's kind of how I became an entrepreneur.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

So I was 23.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

Okay, how old are you now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

Now I'm 32, or I just turned 33.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 410: From Worker to Owner Does $5m in 2015 Franchise Model with Josh Herron of 1800GotJunk

Yeah.

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